Re: How to write files from AIX 4.2.1 to Windows?

On Jul 22, 6:27 am, "steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada"
<steven_nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 20, 11:52 pm, "gphaed...@xxxxxxxxx" <gphaed...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



I'm wanting to write files each night from an RS/6000 running AIX
4.2.1 to a machine in my Windows domain. I have samba set up on the
AIX box, and Windows users can happily access the AIX box but am
having issues when wanting to write files in the other direction.

From searching around the net I can't find any information that looks
particularly helpful for me as a 4.2.1 user. I would think installing
CIFS support would be the simplest way to do this, and found some info
stating I can install CIFS from the installation CD but I can't find
any CIFS stuff on my install discs and I'm thinking perhaps it wasn't
part of the install discs in 4.2.1

Does this sound reasonable? Would CIFS be the obvious way to mount a
Windows share under AIX? Is this possible in AIX 4.2.1? If so, can I
download the CIFS install material from somewhere or is it on the
discs and I'm just not looking hard enough?

I also found stuff about Fast Connect that looked helpful, but it
doesn't look like that is supported under 4.2.1

Anyway, if someone has any suggestions it would be greatly
appreciated... also, it does look like CIFS is not already
installed... I had thought to check that

Try finding a copy of Samba that runs on AIX 4.2 - It lets you copy
files back and forth between a Windows PC and a UNIX host. There are
compiled versions available for AIX 4.3, but not sure about earlier
versions.

Steve

Thanks for your reply Steve (and Sol's earlier)... I have samba
installed, but I didn't think that allowed sending the files in the
other direction... I guess my issue is actually that I don't know how
to mount, or just directly reference, the Windows share. I read that
smbfs would allow me to write the other way, but found something else
that said smbfs was separate from samba itself and was deprecated, and
support was put behind developing CIFS instead. Could you, or anyone,
advise of how I might write to a Windows box using Samba... ie. do I
need to add a 'reverse share' to my samba.conf so AIX can see Windows?

As for Sol's suggestion to FTP the files, it's not really suitable for
my needs... perhaps I should have explained my situation better.

I've inherited an AIX system that has not really been administered for
a number of years (and adding to the problem, it's the first time I've
used AIX). We currently have a backup system of a job running each
weekday backing up files to tape using the backup command. We don't do
any mksysb backups, and are using a ten year old tape drive that I'm
sure is going to fail one day.

I would like to change this to doing a weekly mksysb, and having the
files backed up using tar on to a share on our SAN in our Windows
environment. This way the daily file backups would be stored centrally
with our other backups, would mean the tars could be backed up to tape
with our standard Windows backup to tape job, nd would require less
administrator intervention in terms of changing tapes everyday. The
main issue is that I don't have the spare drive space to tar the files
on to my AIX box... so I wanted to tar to a mounted windows share
directly. I had thought of doing this in the reverse order (creating a
samba share on AIX, then having Windows compress the files to a
backup), but would rather the files tarred in their native environment
lessening any chance of annoyances like permissions issues or
something like that. I also can't use Backup Exec under Windows as the
Backup Exec Agent only supports from AIX 4.3 onwards.
.

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