Trouble with SFU/NFS mount

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear all,

I am trying to connect some WIN XP clients (I am trying to make them clients!!) via nfs mount to my HP-UX 11 maschine. We have a raid system on this maschine and want to provide this space as data space to some users on WIN PCs.
I installed Windows Services for Unix (SFU) on the PC and tried to connect to the Unix server.
It worked but only if I use anonymous autenthification.
Therefore I had to set the line in /etc/exports to: /testdir -anon=-2,access=testclientip
I see the directory and I am able to mount it. The problems starts when I tried to write. Only possible when permissions are alle opened!!
Therefore I tried to connect as user xy by:
/testdir -anon=-1,acess=testclientip
Result: I do eve not see any content of the remote directories.
O.k. to make it short: Has anybody experience with that? Can anybody provide me the right method to bring this up? This would be very, very helpfull!

Thanks a lot in advance.

Oliver

[Mark Grant]

I don't think I'll be the only person to say this but you'll have a lot less problems with windows to unix conectivity using samba. Then you can mount your windows shares on hpux as windows shares.

[Charlie Rubeor]

Mark is correct, he will not be the only person to suggest using Samba/CIFS.

Samba/CIFS can be difficult to install, especially with all the dependencies, but you only need to install it once. With SFU, you will need to install it on each PC. Also, I found that unless you had a "standard" question, support for SFU was non-existent.

[Charlie Rubeor]

Sorry, forgot to mention, Samba/CIFS is available from www.software.hp.com. Search for CIFS and select client and/or server, depending on your needs.

[The Real MD]

Oliver,

CIFS is relatively easy to setup, it installs without a reboot and has a configuration GUI or you can edit the smb.conf file direct.

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

Hope this helps

Martin.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Oliver,

Samba/CIFS is the best solution.