Unix to Windows 2000 Export Directories

[Donald J. Butera]

Greetings All,

My challenge is to export two Unix filesystems to a single Windows directory. I have been successful using Samba to mount a directory from Windows to Unix but not the opposite. My Unix box is a N4000-55 and the Windows platform is a Windows 2000 Server. Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom.

[Shahul]

Hi,

It's possible by enabling pcnfsd under /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf file, there is a variable PCNFS_SERVER, set this to 1. Then, there are 3rd party product avaialable in site, you can download those and load in windows PC to see exported filesystems from Unix systems.


Good luck
Shahul

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Donald,

CIFS is an option.

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

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Christos Magdalinos]

Hi

I do not understand the exact problem ...
Can this be a workaround ...

Say you have
HPUX FS1 mounted @ /A
&
HPUX FS2 mounted @ /B

then

mkdir /tmp/C
ln -s /A /tmp/C/A
ln -s /B /tmp/C/B

and "share" /tmp/C with Windows using samba
If your issue is with samba configuration then please specify the errors you get ...
Take a look at the /var/opt/samba logfiles and the documents under /opt/samba

Hope it helps

Christos

[Alzhy]

UNIX Mounting Windows Shares:
1.\ Use the CIFS9000 product that is now bundled on 11.0/11i systems and very robust at that. BEST solution.

2.\ Install SFU (Services for UNIX) on Windows Server and you can use NFS to mount the Windows shares (varying opinions on this) -- but 2 thumbs up from me nevertheless.


Windows Mounting UNIX Shares:
1.\ SAMBA -- makes your UNIX servers appear as Windows servers so you can mount UNIX filesystems(or directories) natively.. no software required on Windows machines. On HP systems, SAMBA is known as the CIFS/9000 Server package and is always part of the install under 11i. BEST and most common solution... With SAMBA 3.0 (not yet bundled with HPUX), LDAP/ActiveDirectory is supported..

2.\ Use NFS Protocol, either using 3rd party NFS/PCNFS products on Windows side. May or may not require software on UNIX side...


HTH.

[Steven E. Protter]

This manual may give you some assistance.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90022/B8724-90022_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90022/00/00/15-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B8724-90022/00/00/15-toc.html&searchterms=cifsclient%7cCIFS/9000&queryid=20040108-082731

Getting cifsclient to connect to windows is possible with enough careful effort.

The tough part is when a login fails, windows doesn't often log it anywhere where you can monitor it.

Conversely if you have enhanced loggin on the Unix box, you'll see all cifs login attempts in syslog.log

SEP

[Alzhy]

BTW, we've been heavy users of CIFS/9000 Client (aka CIFS Client) which allows you to mount a Windows share as a Filesystem on your HPUX machine... Just a word of caution.. you should install at least the A.01.09.04 release.. Our site has been instrumental in ironing out some problems mostly relating to WAN connected shares...