Mounting a Windows Share under AIX using CIFS
There are several options for transferring files between AIX and Windows, including NFS, SAMBA, SCP and FTP – all have there advantages and disadvantages but a recent connection method that we have been using is to mount a Windows Share as a CIFS (Common Internet File System) VFS (Virtual File System).
Trying to mount a Windows 2003 Share on an AIX Server (v5.3) using the CIFS virtual file system can be a bit tricky but extremely useful once implemented.
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Are there any special requirements/tools needed for a AIX server to see (copy data) a Windows share? Only need 1-way copy (Windows-to-AIX).
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Atenção para o erro abaixo:
There was an error connecting the share or the server.
Make sure the lsdev command shows that device nsmb0 is in
the Available state. Also make sure that the share name,
user name and password are accurate.Este erro foi solucionado em 2 etapas:
1 ) O protocolo WIN NetBIOS estava “Disable”. Não pode ser “Disable”
2 ) Deve ter uma entrada no /etc/hosts para o servidor WIN ( isso para AIX ).
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Thanks for that,
I have AIX 5.2, installed bos.cifs_fs and created a shared folder in windows XP as “123″ ,
but i am unable to access this 123 folder in AIX,I tried all commands wich show above.
when i use below command it aks password, which i alraedy given in commad.
#mount -v cifs -n windows-IP/123 username=username,password=password /AIX-shared-dir
when i enter, its aks passwd, even if i given windows passwd i will get
“There was an error connecting the share or the server.
Make sure the lsdev command shows that device nsmb0 is in
the Available state. Also make sure that the share name,
user name and password are accurate.” this error.So wt to do…………..
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Hi,
We already have CIFS mount on our AIX box mounted from some windows server.
but during last week reboot, mounts did not come up and all our jobs created the local directory exactly in the same name as CIFS mounted directory.
So my questions is, after this weekly reboot mounts have come back and will the local directory created gets overwritten and files under it will be lost??
Thanks in advance.
Sachin -
Just make sure that error always come if you didnt shared directory from Windows.
First share directory from windows(2003,XP.etc…) whatever you want mount.
Thanks,
Ravi
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