Hello! Mark you're in good company. I also agree with Mark's comments regarding Samba. Can you e-mail me off list a link to the statement that they are discontinuing support for Services for UNIX. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 10/3/2014 at 05:29 PM, Ron Foster <[email protected]> wrote: >> Everyone, >> >> We have a Windows application that accesses files on Linux on system z. We= >> currently use Microsoft services for Unix. >> >> But we have found that Microsoft is dropping support for this product. And= >> we have to migrate to a newer operating system. So we need plan B. >> >> We have tried using native TCPIP client that is in Windows 2008 R2, at leas= >> t one function used by the application is not usable. (we make the nfs conn= >> ection using the NFS client and then map a Windows share on top of it. >> >> Now we are trying out the Open Text NFS gateway. However it uses pcnfsd to= >> do authentication. >> >> Anyone have any idea of how to get hands on a PCNFSD module. >> >> Anyone thought about Samba and a NFS mount? > > OK, I'm confused. What can't you just use Samba and have the client systems > running the application just map a network drive to your Linux server? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
