unix services for windows

[marvin51796]

is there anything that you ahve to do on an aix4.3 to mount to a NFS mount on a PC, I have unix services for windows running on a PC with the NFS share setup as data but i cant connect to it, it keeps failing and says

Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below.

mount: 1831-010 server unixservices not responding: RPC: 1832-018 Port mapper fa
ilure - RPC: 1832-008 Timed out
mount: backgrounding
unixservices:data


thanks for any help

 

[khalidaaa]

What is the output of the command showmount -e nfs_server_name?

Are both machines pingable from both sides? Are you sure its not DNS resolution problem? (use nslookup)

Regards,
Khalid

 

[itsp1965]

Are you sure your Windows host running SFU is listening on port 111 (both TCP/UDP)
Take a look at the following;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313621

 

[psi07004]

There are two parts to this. Assuming you have installed windows services for unix correctly, and you have network connectivity between systems.

On the pc go to windows explorer and expand "Entire Network". At this point you should see the AIX system listed by name or ip address. If you expand that entry you should see the AIX filesystems you have shared, and that is the second part. On the rs6000 you must share the resource you want to use. login in as root and do the following:
1. Start SMIT
2. Communications Applications and Services
3. NFS
4. Network File System (NFS
If you have not already started NFS go to "Configure NFS on This System" and "Start NFS". Then continue...
5. Add a Directory to Exports List
At this point enter only the filesystem name (/myfiles) on the first line and let the rest default for now. Once you have it working you can go back and restrict access if you want.

Once you have done this go back to windows explorer and now you should be able to see the directories on the shared filesystem.

This should work for you. I have the exact same setup here working ok.

 

[p5wizard]

psi07004, from what I read, OP wants to mount a windows drive/dir on AIX. I have seen this work before.

Fom what I can deduce out of the original post, SFU on Windows needs some more configuration to make it start behaving as an NFS server, which it isn't doing right now.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[marvin51796]

Both machines are pingable, the out put from the showmount shows me the NFS mounts that are exported on the unix box. And SFU is listening on port 111 for both (UDP/TCP). i am trying to go the other way, I need a PC share on a AIX box.....

 

[marvin51796]

this is what i get trying to do a showmount towards the PC..
showmount -e unixservicestest
showmount: unixservicestest: RPC: Rpcbind failure - RPC: Timed out

 

[marvin51796]

I actually got it working, thanks for all of your help

 

[khalidaaa]

Marvin,

Could you please show the steps that your are doing to acheive this?

I came across these links on configuring SFU, I hope you find them helpful:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463204.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb380242.aspx

Regards,
Khalid

 

[khalidaaa]

Opps, It seems that i was late in replying!

Could you please let us know what was the problem?

Thanks

Regards,
Khalid

 

[marvin51796]

well, i have the disk mounted but now it says permission denied everytime i try to cd /data into it?? I have verified that it is open for anonymos access on the windows sides but still not helping, any more ideas would be appreciated.

the first part of the problem was someone turned on windows firewall.....

 

[khalidaaa]

How about instead of sharing it with annonymous access, use a known-to-both-machines user name?

Regards,
Khalid

 

[marvin51796]

there is not a name known to both, the AIX box is an old legacy server that we are trying to get ready to get rid of, and the PC is on the domain.