On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 11:20 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > I am writing from the US Census Bureau in Washington, DC. There is an > immediate need for samba to be implemented on 3 AIX lpars. > Attached is the smb.conf file and testparm for dadsp003. > Here is the scenario: > 3 AIX, 6.1 lpars, dadsp001, dadsp002 and dadsp003. Installed samba 3.0.24 > from aix6 cd. Currently installed on dadsp002 and dadsp003. Configured > only on dadsp003.
That is a *seriously* antique version of Samba, you may have some compatibility issues with newer client OSs. pWare provides much more current versions of Samba for AIX <http://pware.hvcc.edu/> Otherwise these is nothing different about setting up Samba on AIX vs. other operating systems. > The local networks on all 3 lpars are 192.168.0 and 192.168.1 > I have 2 shares configured. The daemons (smdb and nmdb) are running and > users can connect to the shares on dadsp003. > How do I add/configure the other 2 lpars (dadsp001 and dadsp002) so a user > can login to dadsp001 or dadsp002 and have the shares available. We do > not use ldap on the AIX servers. I am using smbpasswd to configure users > as you will see in the smb.conf.dadsp003 file. You will need to add identical entries to all three smbpasswd (given that you have no network backend for authentication / identification). > We have the "net use" command for dadsp003 working via ssh login from AIX > to windows. In addition to any configuration, my guess would be that the > same "net use" command can be changed to point from the correct server. > I have no idea if I am asking the right question(s), I'm not sure what "from AIX to windows" means. > but I have to start > somewhere. The developers/testers are way behind in their work waiting on > the samba configuration. HELP ASAP please. I have read and googled to > the point of confusion. Google is not your friend. Avoid all documentation except <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/> and <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/> which really do lay it out step-by-step, especially the Guide. Start with <http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/simple.html>. > A phone call would be great, but if email is the only way, then I will > take what I can get. Do you have the smbd & nmbd services running? Do Windows clients see the Samba servers? -- OpenGroupware developer: [email protected] <http://whitemiceconsulting.blogspot.com/> OpenGroupare & Cyrus IMAPd documenation @ <http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/wmogag/file_view> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
