We have used SMB/Samba for quite some time to access MVS files from Windows. Yes, I'm the one who set it up. I may actually be the only regular user, and since RECEIVEFROMNETWORK replaced our older ShopzSeries procedure, even I don't use it a lot. However, I happened to discover during 'early use' of RECEIVEFROMNETWORK that their MVS file naming convention caused a failure under SMB mapping because a time stamp with colons stunned Windows directory processing. IBM replaced the colons with periods and all is well in SMB land.
. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 01/04/2006 07:08:13 PM: > Neal Eckhardt wrote: > > We currently access MVS datasets from AIX. Has anybody been able to > > use NFS from Windows or Novell? There do not appear to be MVSLOGIN,etc > > programs supplied. > > > > Thanks, > > Neal > > I'm not the one that did it, but a couple of years ago we did have this > working. We gave it up and used SAMBA instead. I was told that not > only was SAMBA faster, but using NFS they had to mount not only the main > directory, but all sub-directories under it. Using SAMBA they just > mounted the main directory. Not sure if this is true I never used it > and I have never used NFS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
