accessing samba from HPUX machine

[George Broadrick]

This is a hodge-podge, but we are running samba on our Sun servers (OS = Solaris) and serving up data to our workstations (OS= WinXP). However, we need to access the data via one of our Unix boxes that is running HP-UX 11.11. Is there anyway to configure our HPUX box to access this? We were thinking maybe vi the fstab file and try to mount it as a share, but it's not nfs nor vxfs so we're not sure how to do this. Any ideas??

Thanks in advance

[Ivan Ferreira]

You could share the same data via NFS, or you can install CIFS in hp-ux. CIFS is the official SAMBA for HP-UX.

[George Broadrick]

how would we do the CIFS? How would we configure it?

[Ivan Ferreira]

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


See "HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administratorâ s Guide" in http://www.docs.hp.com.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You should install the server and client software for CIFS/Samba HP-UX. If you want to integrate with a domain both pieces are needed.

The client requires a system boot at installation time.

The client comes with cifsclient and cifsmount and I should note that this client runs on top of NFS, so you'll need to not disable nfs.core or nfs.client on the HP-UX system.

SEP

[Al Licause]

Given the fact in the previous entry that the NFS is still required under the Samba software on HPUX, why not simplify and use nfs as was suggested previously ?

You're always better off using components like nfs that are native to unix operating systems rather than trying to force fit a Microsoft style solution into the environment. Keep Samba for the PC's and use NFS for unix's.