Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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Hi,

Very easy using Navigator for i, just right-clic on "NFS" in "TCP/IP Servers":

You can then use "Start All" and check "Start when TCP/IP is started" in "Properties".

I'd suggest to start with a public read-write share for testing, then restrict security. You can find more information here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=systems-network-file-system-nfs.

Also, some old but still relevant information: NFS Presentation.

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Sylvain Manceau
Blue
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 11, 2025 08:32 PM
From: Michael Ruth
Subject: NFS Mount

Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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Here is IBM Technote URL on using NFS server in IBM i :   https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/nfs-presentation.  

And this is another article from 1999 on the same subject : Share Files with UNIX Systems Through AS/400 NFS at https://www.mcpressonline.com/operating-systems/unix-aix/share-files-with-unix-systems-through-as400-nfs                          

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Satid S
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 11, 2025 08:32 PM
From: Michael Ruth
Subject: NFS Mount

Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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Hi Michael

Try these three links, hope they help.

Network file system (NFS)

Using NFS to Mount Remote File Systems

NFS Concepts and Troubleshooting

Cheers Brad

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Network file system (NFS) The Network File System (NFS) provides access to and from systems that have NFS implementations. View this on Ibm >

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Steve Bradshaw
Friendly Techie
RowtonIT.com

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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 11, 2025 08:32 PM
From: Michael Ruth
Subject: NFS Mount

Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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Here is a sample of one lpar of IBM i doing an export:

STRNFSSVR SERVER(*ALL)

EXPORTFS OPTIONS('-I -O') DIR('/tmp')

Here is a sample of another lpar of IBM i doing a mount on that export

MOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MFS('gdihq:/tmp')        MNTOVRDIR('/gdihq/tmp') +        
      OPTIONS('rw,suid,retry=5,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=20,retrans=5,+
               acregmin=30,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,soft,async,+
               sec=sys,vers=3:2,nocache') 

Now, perhaps your SAP guy can translate that MOUNT into his version of mount.

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Robert Berendt IBMChampion
Business Systems Analyst, Lead
Dekko
Fort Wayne
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 11, 2025 08:32 PM
From: Michael Ruth
Subject: NFS Mount

Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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You got a lot of good info here so I won't repeat what many have already said or pointed you to..I will share some of my experience though if you don't mind...We use NFS a lot so now we're more comfy with it but...when we were first starting out or even if we had to make changes , the authority aspect of the NFS mount always kind of bit us...we had to get used to using the chmod command via qshell in order to get the permissions right - ex CHMOD -R 755.. Also...we had to familiarize ourselves on how the authority / owner is set....this involved making sure that our group profiles that needed access to it had the right GID which in some cases, resulted in having to change other group profiles that happened to have the GID we needed.  Hope it all goes well Michael.

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Rich Malloy
Principal Systems Engineer - IBMi
Cox Automotive
Draper UT
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 11, 2025 08:32 PM
From: Michael Ruth
Subject: NFS Mount

Hello,  There is an issue where production orders are not coming down from SAP to the AS/400 vis SFTP.  SFTP is working from all tests conducted. The SAP team wants me to create an NFS mount to try to send orders through. Does anyone have experience configuring NFS mount?

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Michael Ruth
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