samba

[Michael E. Collins_1]

I am trying to install samba ver 2.2.3 all ready compilied onto a hpux ver 11.0 64bit system, and i am trying to mount drives onto a windows XP and Windows 2000 system, without any luck, does anyone have any ideas or helpfull infomation

[Mark Vollmers]

Michael-

how far have you gotten? as far as installation, it should be straightforward, and configuration is rather easy using the gui interface (type in http://localhost:901 in the browser and log in as root). I would either recommend getting the Using Samba book by O'reily (online or print) or looking at www.samba.org for help and documentation; it helped me a lot. lastly, for hp-ux, you can download the cifs server from www.download.hp.com This is in essence samba, but hp tweaked it a little. It's all set up in a .depot, so download and go. Once it's set up, you should be able to mount unix directories (shares) to windows machines. if you want to go the other way (NT mounted on UNIX), you should install the CIFS client. Also, use the search function and look for samba. you'll find a lot. Hope this helps.

Mark

[Mark Fenton · Accepted solution]

Michael,
I would echo Mark's excellent advice. The Using Samba (included in the distribution as a web document) Book is essential to successful troubleshooting and setup, even if it is geared more to an earlier distribution.

How simple it would be to mount shares from the HP-UX environment depends on your situation. If the XP and 2000 workstations are part of a Domain, you can join your samba server to the domain and then use domain authentication.

HP's implimentation includes some tweaked utilities that make password conversion simple when adding users to the smbpasswd file.

If you decide to instead use HP's CIFS-9000 implimentation, check out their documentation:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/#CIFS/9000

Which has very well written chapter on setup.

Hth
Mark

[benoit Bruckert]

Hi,
More details should be usefull,
windows 2000 and XP are running encrypted password, so you have to configure it in your smb.conf. And of course, configure a smbpasswd file which will contain the smb password and the mapping with Unix users...

Hope it may help,

[Michael E. Collins_1]

Thnxs for all of you help and quick responce i have downloaded CIFS, installed it and it is now working, thnxs again