Mounting HPUX shares to the WindowsXP clients

[itreyger]

A number of Windows workstations with Windows2K was migrated to the new hardware with windowsXP. I need to mount a number of UX shares for our clients (users,home etc). All these worstations have Humminbird installed. I remember on old windows2k workstations UNIX shares was mounted throu windows explorer. I am new to UNIX so I need a little bit help here.Thank you

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Built into Windows is Samba.

Get the CIFS/9000 samba server and client from http://software.hp.com

Install them both.

Now you are ready to set up shares that windows servers/systems can mount.

SEP

[itreyger]

Thanks Steven.
I have Apache server installed on my HPUX host. I guess I need to have some kind of client installed on these workstations?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can do it one of two ways --- and they aren't mutually exclusive. The easiest is to install CIFS 9000 aka Samba software on your HP-UX box. That has the effect of making designated directories on your UNIX box look like a Windows file share so that nothing needs to be installed on your Windows boxes.

Plan B is to find an NFS client for your Windows boxes and use the native HP-UX NFS server to export the file systems and/or directories. If you want to do it this way, one option is Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU).

[NMory · Accepted solution]

Please refer to this link for more information on how to accomplish this task:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90950/ch04s04.html

Refer to Importing HP-UX Directories to NT title.

Rgds,

NM

[Eric Raeburn]

itreyger,

This is Eric in the HP CIFS Client software lab.

A couple of the previious replies had it almost right. The NFS client in SFU is workable, but the more feature-rich solution is CIFS (for example, with CIFS you can have the security of Kerberos authentication, network packet signatures, etc.). The software package you want is "CIFS Server" (the previous name, CIFS/9000, has been obsolete for some years).

The CIFS Server is HP's enhanced version of the open-source product Samba. Samba emulates a Windows server on Unix, Linux, and other platforms. It is not built into Windows as suggested above--it is an open-source, reverse-engineered, and extremely robust implementation of the CIFS file server. Inclusion in Windows would be a blatant violation of the GNU Public License under which Samba is released.

You do not need the CIFS Client for the task you describe. The CIFS Client is used to mount Windows or Samba shares on the HPUX host, just as a Windows client maps a network drive. In essence, CIFS Server emulates a Windows server, CIFS Client emulates a Windows client.

Administrator's Guides and Release Notes can be found at docs.hp.com .

Good luck,
-Eric Raeburn

[OldSchool]

hold on.....all he did was trade out windows platforms...it least that's what it seems to say.

if the unix side is unchanged, then all he *probably* needs to do is "map a network drive" in explorer as he always did.

I'm of course assuming that cifs/samba is already running on ux, as the o.p. states "ux shares were mounted thru explorer"

[Eric Raeburn]

Good point. He did state he's new to Unix--maybe all he needs to do is enter "startsmb". Hopefully there's enough info posted here to enable him to analyze the situation.

-ER

[itreyger]

Guys,thanks for your responses. I guess I found the way out here. I will install Humminbird NFS MaestroSolo on windows pc and then will make sure that pcnfsd is running on the UX host. I will keep you posted on the result.NMory, thanks for the link

[OldSchool]

ok, my question is, the XP boxes are going to connect to the same HP-UX box as the W2k boxes did, correct?

the W2k boxes connected via "map a network drive" in explorer, correct?

then why do you think you need to start daemons and install more software for this to work in the XP machine?

It sounds like samba / cifs is already installed / running on unix.

[Rita C Workman]

Oldschool...you have it correct !

itreyger....you are adding a layer of complexity that may be unnecessary.

If you want to use Hummingbird to connect to your UNIX box and gain a 'workstation feel' then simply set up your Exceed connection, by going into:
Exceed/XConfig/Network and Communication
change Mode to XDMCP Broadcase
click Configure
Go down under XDMCP Broadcase and click on box Host List File.
Edit file accordingly to add UNIX box IP and name (just like in /etc/hosts)
Click File/Save
Put an icon for XDMCP Broadcast on your PC
...then click and select the server you want...
and bang...you have your CDE.

BUT..............if you want a simple file share connection back to HPUX from Windows then, after you set up your CIFS/SAMBA share then just do what Oldschool says and do a simple Windows: Start/Explore/Tools/Map a Network Drive..

..whew....

Have fun,
Rgrds,
Rita

[Rita C Workman]

..and don't forget to assign points to all the nice folks who have helped you here...

Rgrds,
Rita

[itreyger]

Ok guys,here is the story. I found out that they had NFS Chameleon installed on old windows boxes. NFS Maestro will do the same job for them as Chameleon did. I installed and configured NFS Maestro - works. Thank you ALL for you help!