NFS mount to PC client

[Brenda McLaren]

I have a filesystem exported as /app/application/data -anon=130. The user ID of 130 is the user ID that we want any PC clients to connect as. My problem is that when I attempt to connect from a Windows 2000 client or an NT workstation, I receive the message "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occured: The remote computer is not available."

I can mount the filesystem successfully on HP-UX and on AIX. All other forms of access to the HP-UX box that has the filesystem exported are available (telnet, ftp, ect.)

I don't know jack about NT, an my NT admin is out on maturnity...HELP!

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Brenda

[Tom Danzig]

Just a thought.... In Windows 9x, the user defaults to nobody (user -2). You might want to try setting anon=-2.

Or maybe anon=65534 ??

Worth a shot anyway.

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Have a look at this previous thread:
http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xfddff841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards
Victor

[Kevin Ernst]

Brenda:

Are you using some kind of third-party NFS client on the NT side, like Hummingbird's NFS Maestro or something? Because NT (don't know about 2000) doesn't have any kind of NFS support built-in, and if it has a PC-NFS client anywhere I haven't seen it.

PC-NFS is not NFS, but if you don't have any kind of NFS client for NT, you can do some testing to see if it fits your needs with the PC-NFS client on a Windows 95 machine--without having to buy (or compile) any additional software. I'm pretty sure that Windows 95 (possibly 98, probably not ME) systems have a PC-NFS client which you can add using the 'Network' control panel.

You would need to enable the PC-NFS *server* on the HP-UX box by setting PCNFS_SERVER=1 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf (assuming you have a 10.x or 11.x box) and running '/sbin/init.d/nfs.server restart' (probably shouldn't do this with users on the system, though). I'm not familiar with the configuration of a PC-NFS server under HP-UX, but the man page for 'pcnfsd' should be a good starting point.

Depending on exactly what your needs are, using Samba ( http://www.samba.org ) or CIFS/9000 (basically the same thing, but distributed and supported by HP) instead might just save you a lot of headache, at the expense of a little extra administrative effort on the server side. Samba is a filesharing suite that allows you to serve files to Windows PC clients using the same protocols as regular Windows Networking (a la 'Network Neighborhood').

[Brenda McLaren]

Thanks to all - I installed and implemented CIFS/Samba Server this morning and it works great.

Thanks again,
Brenda