Sharing an HP-UX filesystem via Win2K

[Stefan Farrelly]

Hi all,

We are trying to investigate a method to;
1. Mount/share an HP-UX filesystem on a Windows2000 server (easy).
2. Then share this volume on the Win2000 server so that multiple users can then access it via the Win2K server.

We cannot share the volume direct from HP-UX to users' desktops - we must go thru the Win2K server (for application reasons).

We cant use NFS. Weve tried using Samba and can mount the HP-UX filesystem on the Win2K server fine - but then Win2k will NOT allow us to make this drive shareable so were stuck. Seems to be a feature of Windows!

Anyone know of a 3rd party tool (not nfs based - preferrably Samba based) which will allow us to do this ?

Thanks,

Stefan

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Can cygwin help? Cygwin has several server components in it's installation options and runs flawlessly with Samba on HP-UX. You can even 'cd' or symlink using UNC path'

my_pc > cd //hp_ux/share/my/doc/folder

my_pc > //hp_ux/share/my/script_folder/script

www.cygwin.com

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Stefan

This is a security feature.

What happens if you share the parent dir or drive from the Windoze 2k machine?

- ( 2k - does that stand for 2000 major bugs still not fixed).

Is it feasible to extend your Samba export list to all users?

Paula

[Darren Prior]

Hi Stefan,

I don't believe that you can reshare a mapped network drive on Win2k anyway so I'm a little confused. :)

Is the application normally expecting you to share out a local drive from the Win2k server?

The only suggestion I have is to see whether you can do something with the netbios aliases option (documented in smb.conf's man page and also in the O'Reilly Using Samba book.) Please note that I've never tried this - but it _may_ be possible to have the Samba server aliased to the Win2k box... Potentially the app would then map to the drive as if it were on the Win2k box.

regards,

Darren.

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Configure DFS in windows 2000 server.
Include the unix samba share in windows 2000 Distributed file system tree .
I think you can access the share thru windows clients now.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[John Bolene]

What real problem are you trying to solve?

Using the disk on the HP machine that already has a backup schedule?

Don't have $200 to add to the disk on the 2K machine? Or an already setup backup for this machine?

[Helen French]

Hi Stefan:

I have an HP product on one of my system which does the same functions - ASU/9000 (Advance server/9000). With this product, I will be able share a HP-UX file system (or any other resources) to WinNT server and then again share the same on WinNT server to users, groups, systems etc. You can even assign permissions, rights etc to this share and will just act like a Windows file system.

You can do the administration from either HP (man net) or from Windows. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but just thought of posting this.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I shall try them out early next week and let you know the results. Have no fear - I shall definitely allocate points once ive evaluated your replies.

Thanks,

Stefan

[Stefan Farrelly]

Mr U.SivaKumar - thanks a lot, your suggestion worked perfectly! This is how to get around Microsoft/Win2K stopping remapping of shared drives - using Win2K's DFS allowed us to remap it from our Win2K server to lots of users with PC's (but not Macs - which is what we wanted to work).

Shiju - Thanks for the suggestion of Advanced Server but we dont have any NT servers to try it on so I havent tested it.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

If you want to have a non-server WinNT, Win2k, or WinXP box be a MacOS server, try http://www.miramar.com PC McLAN. Works great and simple. Not too expensive.

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi Stefan,

Try using netatalk for that.

regards,

U.SivaKumar

[mjs79080]

Hi Stefan,

I am new to HPUX and I am looking to share a HP-UX filesystem on a Windows2000 server, you refered to this as easy, if you could give me a few tips on how to do this, it would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike.