Share the Filesystem from windows to unix

[KVK]

Hello Experts,

Wants to share the Windows file system running in win2003 server to HP-Ux 11i server .

Unix services are enabled in Windows server wants to acheve this using NFS or CIFS ?

If it's possible from NFS side wants the procedure to do it

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you have Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU) already installed then you can export the filesystems on the Windows server and do an NFS mount on the HP-UX client. It's probably more straightforward (al least to the Windows guys) to use Samba/CIFS. Either approach is valid.

[KVK]

It has been installed at the windows server but while mounting the filesystems to hp-ux
getting the following error

[root@bizapp02 /]# showmount -e 10.21.21.80
showmount: 10.21.21.80: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out

[root@bizapp01 /]# mount -a
nfs mount: get_fh: 10.21.21.80:: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out nfs mount: get_fh:
10.21.21.80:: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out nfs mount: retry: retrying(1) for:
/apps/stpFiles after 5 seconds nfs mount: retry: giving up on: /apps/stpFiles

telnet works fine ping service is disabled

[Mel Burslan]

ping service disabled comment is telling me that you have some sort of firewall between the two servers. Did you check with firewall adminst to make sure ports needed by NFS connections are punched thru the firewall ?

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

This seems to be a firewall config issue only. How abt ping from windows to unix machine. Is both servers are in same network?

Regards,
Sunil

[KVK]

NFS to work ping is must required or not ?. since ping is disabled is firewall

[Mel Burslan]

No, ping functionality is not required. Actually firewalls are optionally required to block ping requests to preven DDOS attacks but another set of ports on the firewall related to NFS communication should be open for traffic bidirectionally. Talk to your firewall admins. They should know what to do as NFS is a commonly used application.