RE: Distribute file across wide area network -- MIDRANGE-L

Pete and Vernon cover QNTC pretty well, and yes, the network discovery stuff
does work, but it can be a s-l-o-w process.  Stuffing the link to the host
into QNTC does help you avoid that.  I've had some reliability issues that
seem to point at netbios, but nothing that I can pin down. 

Probably a bit more work, but NFS is a similar concept for mounting (Unix
style) a remote file-system to a path in your root.  This one was invented
by Sun, and shows a bit more polish and reliability than Microsoft's
implementation of SMB.  FWIW, QNTC has been fine for our needs, despite a
few hiccough's

About account validation in QNTC, we wound up creating a set of commands to
copy, move, delete, etc. files between os400 and windows, that swap profile
handles to a "NETSERVR" profile that exists both on OS400 and the Windows
domain controller. This allows us to use these commands in a production
environment where the job's user profile (most likely) doesn't exist or is
different in Windows networking.   

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Hall [mailto:pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:14 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Distribute file across wide area network


At 09:05 03/31/2003, Deon Reid wrote:
>I am running a JAVA program on the AS/400 that creates a PC Text file. I
>would like to send this file to a Windows server on the network. What
>methods are available to me to distribute it other than FTP?


I've been using the QNTC method that Vern mentioned. It works fine, but 
there are a few quirks. The NT box and the AS400 must be in the same 
domain, or user account validation will fail, and there doesn't seem to be 
a way around that. It's also necessary to have the user name and password 
be the same on the domain as on the AS400. There's a work-around for that 
though. It may also be necessary to "mount" the NT share on the AS400 by 
using the MKDIR command. It's supposed to happen automagically if the NT 
box is on the same subnet as the AS400. I don't know if that works or not 
(I'm not blessed with that situation). There are a couple of 
not-too-painful ways to make that happen too. All in all, It has made our 
data propagation problems a LOT more manageable. MUCH better than relying 
on client access, and even somewhat easier than FTP.


Pete Hall
pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.pbhall.us/

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