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I strongly recommend that you use NFS to access your Linux/Unix servers
instead of /QNTC. I've found it to be much more robust, and much more
native to both the i5/OS and Unix environments.
To me, it seems a little silly to use Windows Networking as a means of
communication between two non-Windows systems!
To the best of my knowledge, IBM does NOT support using /QNTC to access
Samba shares. The following page is the iSeries Netserver home page at
IBM:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/netserver/
Go to that page and click "Linux support" followed by "iSeries Netserver
support for Linux usage" (which is a PDF file -- the link is on the
right-hand side). Scroll down in the PDF document (I think it's the 5th
slide) it shows a System i with /QNTC and a Linux server and says in big
letters "Configuration Not Supported".
On the first page of that PDF is an e-mail address of an IBMer who
presumably is an expert on the topic. So you might try contacting him
for more information.
Another approach might be to run smbclient (the Samba client program) in
PASE on your System i. There's no question that smbclient *is* capable
of accessing Samba servers, and I have it running in PASE on my system,
so I know that part is possible, too. smbclient acts very much like
FTP, except that it accesses a Windows Networking (SMB) file server
instead of an FTP server. I've found that it's a useful tool to use
when working with Windows networking when /QNTC just won't do the job.
I wrote about smbclient in the following article (This article requires
a Pro membership in SystemiNetwork.com):
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article.cfm?id=52389
There have also been various discussions of this in the System iNetwork
forums... the information is a bit scattered, but if you go there and
search for smbclient, you should be able to piece it together:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/
Graap, Kenneth wrote:
Has anyone successfully configured a connection to a UNIX based SAMBA
Server via the QNTC file system on the iSeries?
I have been able to use the QNTC file system to access Windows
directories without any problem, but for some reason I can't access a
link defined on the UNIX based Samba Server. I have no problem mapping
to a Samba Server directory from my Windows Desktop though...
If anyone has been able to make this work I'd sure like to know how you
did it!
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