Sharing a Windows 2003 volume to HP-UX

[Joe Profaizer]

In short, I guess this would be the opposite of CIFS for HP-UX. I want to share a windows drive to our HP-UX servers. Is there a program that exists for windows that will do this for me?

[Mel Burslan]

I never used this but I think what you are looking for is a CIFS client as seen on this page:

https://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/try.do?productNumber=B8724AA
(as usual found by google not itrc search engine. wink-wink nudge-nudge)

[GGA]

hy
u can use the samba client from hpux...
it does work but its not a real good way
regards gga

[Mel Burslan]

Hopefully this will be a link and it is not the download page but the main info page on the product:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA

[Joe Profaizer]

So if I install the CIFS client on HP-UX (which requires a reboot), do I need to install anything on my windows servers?

It looks like the client modifies the kernel in some way which requires the reboot.

Thanks much!

[Mel Burslan]

As I indicated, I never used this client on any of my machines but it may require a reboot on hpux machine. Windows on the other hand, as long as allows this ip address or name of your hpux server to access the share, you do not have to change anything on it. For instance, if you are going to retrieve files from a publicly open share, everything should already be fine and dandy. If the share you will access requires some sort of user authentication, windows server should be aware of with which username and password you are going to connect and you have to, somehow, configure the CIFS client, to present these credentials to the windows server.

[rmueller58]

I'd use NFS,

in the /etc/fstab on your Unix box create an entry for the device you want to mount

Create an Open Share on the MS file server and a mount point on Unix system..

then do a
mount /unixmountpoint

aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:/sharename /unixmountpoint nfs user 0 0

[Brian Miller_9]

You can install Microsoft's Services for UNIX on the Windows system, and export the share over NFS. The software is a free download at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx

Then you just use the standard NFS client on the UNIX system to mount it.