networking cross platforms

[Deanna Helie]

I need some suggestions on networking my UNIX servers on our DNS domain WIN server. I have a program that executs on the a XP workstation that calls another program on my UNIX box using RPC messaging calls. I want to know if anyone has mapped a network connection drive on an Windows workstation to a UNIX box and was able to kick off a background process?

Can I map a logical drive to a UNIX box instead of a network connection drive?

any suggestion or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am playing around with some ideas at this time.

thanks

[Dennis Handly]

Are you talking about mounting HP-UX exported filesystems through NFS?

[likid0]

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you wan't to mount a windows disk on a HP-UX server, you have to share the windows disk and use cifs on HP-UX to mount it.

[Deanna Helie]

Good Morning;

I was wondering about creating a network drive connect from windows to HP.

[Heironimus]

File sharing is (relatively) easy. If you want to map a directory on the HP server as a drive on the PC, install and configure HP's "CIFS Server" package. If you want to mount a file share from the Windows PC as a directory on the HP server, install and configure the "CIFS Client" package.

Full-blown RPC support is a completely different matter and depends on what you're trying to do.