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  • 1.  How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue November 14, 2017 11:19 AM

    Originally posted by: BayBoater33


    What is the recommended way to mount a Windows share in AIX?  Discussions I have found talk about CIFS which I believe is no longer supported by IBM.  Most discussions around that go back to 2013 or earlier and talk about much earlier versions of AIX and Windows.  We have AIX 7.2 and Windows Server 2008 and 2012.


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  • 2.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Thu November 30, 2017 12:14 AM

    Originally posted by: strikr


    Is the Windows machine in Active Directory Domain ?

     


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  • 3.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 11:18 AM

    Originally posted by: Pepe0707


    It is.


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  • 4.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 11:24 AM

    Originally posted by: BayBoater33


    Sorry for the confusion, but Pepe0707 is also me. Had an issue logging in.


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  • 5.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 10:58 AM

    Originally posted by: AncientAIXer


    IBM has a product call Fast Connect, which afaik is a rebranded Samba package.  Samba is also available precompiled for AIX on several websites.


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  • 6.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 11:20 AM

    Originally posted by: Pepe0707


    I have only found instructions for Samba to allow mounting an AIX filesystem to a Windows environment, not the other way around.  Is that your understanding, too?


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  • 7.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 11:35 AM

    Originally posted by: AncientAIXer


    Once you have the cifs filesets installed, use the "-v cifs" option to mount.  The uid and fmode, and maybe others, will also have to be specified.

     

    I'm not sure, but Fast Connect may only be mounting AIX filesystems onto Windows.  Since it is "rebranded" Samba, it is whatever IBM decides to leave in it.  IMHO, I would use Samba, whether precompiled or compiled from source.  I also prefer oss4aix packages, since I'm pretty sure that an IBMer or ex-IBMer does the compiling.


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  • 8.  Re: How to mount Windows share in AIX 7.2

    Posted Tue December 05, 2017 11:25 AM

    Originally posted by: BayBoater33


    Sorry for the confusion, but Pepe0707 is also me. Had an issue logging in.


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