Samba and HP UX 10.2

[John Rioux]

I have a client who has a H.P. B180L workstation that
is running HP UX 10.2. They would like to access a SMB file share on their Windows NT domain. Forgive my lack of knowledge of HP UX, but does 10.2 come with a Samba client that I can use smbmount to access the share ?? If not can I download samba from somewhere to support the connection of this workstation to the NT domain.
Thanks in advance for your consideration
Regards,
John Rioux

[linuxfan]

Hi John,

HP has a free CIFS/9000 (which is basically samba repackaged) you can install it and then use smbmount to share the NT drive

Here's a readme on CIFS client for HP
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8724AA

You can download CIFS client from
https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=B8724AA&date=

However if you want to install CIFS server you can download it from
https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=B8725AA&date=

-HTH
Ramesh

[Patrick Wallek]

The CIFS/9000 software is for HP-UX 11.0 and 11.11 (11i) only. There isn't a version for 10.20.

Here is the site where you can download precompile binaries of Samba for HP-UX 10.20.

http://va.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/hp/

[Santosh Nair_1]

John,

Actually, what you want to do isn't possible on 10.20. The client software that's part of the standard Samba distribution can mount NT shares, but I don't believe that the share is visible to the OS. You can do the reverse, i.e. set up a HP share using Samba and mount it on the NT machine.

HPUX 11.0 has a CIFS client which can mount NT shares, but its not availabe for 10.20 and its not part of the standard Samba distribution (it also requires a reboot as it adds drivers to the kernel).
Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

as CIFS is not available for HP-UX 10.20 you can't mount a SMB share to your HP-UX box.

But the normal samba distribution contains a smbclient which you can use. This smbclient acts more like a ftp program which transfers files to and from a SMB share.

Of course you can still go the other way and share a directory of your HP-UX box and access it from NT.

Get samba (see link posted above) and check which solution suits best.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan