Map a partition from Windows to Unix

[surfguy]

Hi All,

Here is a question ,
How can i map a partition (file system) phisicaly
located on a Unix (Aix) server, on a Windows 2000 server?

Regards,
Riccardo

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

windows services for unix 3.5...you can find it at the microsoft site

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/opssfu.mspx

rgds,

R.

 

[sbrews]

Take a look at Samba - its great for sharing file systems (and printers) from unix to windows.

If you need to share from windows to unix - just read one post up.

 

[hfaix]

I'd repeat what sbrews said....but why. That's my recommendation too.

 

[khalidaaa]

Yeah we use Samba over here with no problems. Just be careful in setting up your security on these mounted files so you are sure no one will just go in and play with the data!

Regards,
Khalid

 

[mrn]

Or take a look at cifs

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

if you use cifs, do not expect high performance ...

 

[TSch]

Hello there,

cifs is quite nice. But as far as I remember if you configure it using smitty you have to enter the password in clear (!) text ...

Terrible security lack ...

Regards
Thomas

 

[columb]

My 2d worth

The organisation I work for are big Samba users, both for letting Windows users access Unix filestore and as a replacement for FTP.

Our approach to security is made simple because we use the same user names on Windows and on Unix and, by using Domain Security the 1:1 mapping means that the permissions map as we want them to.

The global section of smb.conf looks like

[global]
        netbios name = unixhost
        workgroup = NTDomainName
        security = domain
        password server = *
        server string = unixhost AIX Samba Server
        username map = /usr/local/samba/private/user.map

After that its a simple matter adding the Unix box to the NT domain using

/usr/local/samba/bin/net join -W NTDomainName -U NTDomainName\\administrator

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