samba

[O'lnes]

I want to share windows directory to UNIX, can samba do it, is it free? Thanks.

[Scott Van Kalken · Accepted solution]

Samba can do it.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=CIFS&search_free=1&search_trial=1&search_buy=1


the above are the results of a search on software.hp.com for CIFS server software. This is the HP equivalent of samba (well it is samba).

It works quite well.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Yes it is free. You can install it from your application CD's from HPUX 11 and up. It is called CIFS.

Should you don't have CD's you can get it here:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=CIFS&search_free=1&search_trial=1&search_buy=1

or from the HP Porting centre:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/samba-2.2.3a/

HTH
Michael

[O'lnes]

does it need to install software in NT side?
can CIFS run in HP10.xx ? where can i get it?

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Yes !!

you need to install it on windows NT machine !!!

It does also work for HP-UX 10.xx

you can get it from

http://www.samba.org

-Niraj

[T G Manikandan]

If you are using HPUX as the samba server then you have to install some files on the Windows side(some registry files)
If you are using Windows as the server then probably you have to run some daemons on the HPUX side


THanks

[O'lnes]

What daemons need to install in HPUX? Thanks.

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

i hope i understand you correctly:

You want to share some data from your Windows machine.
You want to access this share from your HP-UX box.
You are running HP-UX 10.20.

So you can use the smbclient which comes with samba to access this windowsshare. But this is not a tool like mount. Its more like a ftp client.

The good news is, that you don't have to install or configure anything else. Just install samba and use the client.

But the easier solution is to set up samba on your HP-UX box and share a directory from HP-UX to the Windows world. Any Windows PC will then be able to use this share like any other windows share. Let the windows user copy or move its files to the samba share and the use the data from the HP-UX side.

Thats what we do. The windows PC's store their data by default on the samba share.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[Stefan Schulz]

Two more points:

Under HP-UX 11.x you will find a tool called smbmount in your samba/CIFS package. This tool is able to mount a windows share like any other NFS. But thats not available on HP-UX 10.20.

And please assign points. You havn't assigned *any* points till now. Thats not very nice.

Regards Stefan

[Arockia Jegan]

As you want to share windows directory to UNIX you should run CIFS/samba server in windows side and CIFS client in the HPUX side.

In the HPUX you should start the CIFS client.

..../cifsclient start

[Jens Ebert]

Be aware that CIFS is not Samba. CIFS comes with the manual page for smbmount, but this command ist not available. You have to use cifsmount. You have to use various cifsxxx commands to get what you want.
It's a kernel implementation, so installing the client and server part will reboot your system.

[Donald Kok]

cifsmount is available from ux 11.0, not for 10.x