Sharing unix filesystems to XP/2000/NT

[Morten Kristiansen]

I'm looking for a tool that can help me to share some of my unix filesystems to Microsoft servers. Today we have unix filesystems on Tru64 using ASU and it works like we want. But now we are moving to HP-UX 11i platform and I'm wondering if there is a tool like ASU (advanced server utilites) to share unix FS.

I have read about CIFS, that is a modified samba tool. But I'm not sure that CIFS let you create users from the Windows system or if you have to do it from the unix side. When using ASU, you can administer it all from Windows, like it was a windows server not a unix server.

Can anyone tell me if CIFS has limitations about sharing or if it has the same features as ASU? Or if anyone know of a better tool to use on HP-UX?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Morten,

There is/was a tool Advanced Server/9000 on HPUX. The product is now out of support, suggestions from HP are to migrate to CIFS. Take a look at the link below.

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=J2715BA

CIFS server
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA

CIFS client
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA

Hope this helps,

Roebrt-Jan

[SureshKumar_2]

Hi

you may need to download CIFS/9000 from software.hp.com site. This is an Enhanced version of Samba. I dont think so, u could able to create users form windows system. I am not come across ASU....

Install thru' swinstall, and run samba_setup (interactive tool - will guide to for server setup : Similar as Samba configuration)

And also refer this site for more information on CIFS/9000 product.

http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=cache:eD_ininbDcsJ:www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/infolibrary/whitepapers/cifs_9000.pdf+cifs+configuration&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Geoff Wild]

As others have said - CIFS(Samba) is your solution.

You can administer through Windows via a web browser using SWAT - Samba Web Administration Tool - installed by default with HP CIFS...after install, point your browser to http://unixserver:901/
Login as root.

What you want to do is use a username map.
This option allows you to specify a file containing a mapping of usernames from the clients to the server. This can be used for several purposes. The most common is to map usernames that users use on DOS or Windows machines to those that the UNIX box uses. The other is to map multiple users to a single username so that they can more easily share files.

Create the map file on Unix in /etc/opt/samba

Rgds...Geoff

[jpcast_real]

Samba is in HP-UX 11i by default . You just have to configure the samba configuration file and start the service.

[Thomas Bianco]

as an alternative, you may consider making your PCs more Unix-like. Microsoft has made Services For Unix 3.5 freely available, thou I doubt they'd like the idea of it easing a transistion out of windows.