Re: NFS

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> What is a NFS server?  I am wanting to find a way to be able to get my AS/400 
>on the
> network other than TCP/IP (which it is).  I'm on V3R7M0 and when I do a STR* 
>I see
> a command STRNFS.  I started all servers but couldn't see my AS/400 on the 
>network.
> 
> I tried \\S1032371 but that didn't find anything.
> 
> Is NFS something else then?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston

Hi Jim

NFS stands for Network File System - it's a Unix system for sharing
drives/partitions/directories between machines over the network. It's the
equivalent of Windows mapped drives - like NetServer provides. I don't
know for sure, but I think it will require TCP/IP connectivity to work.

I use it at work to share directories off our AS/400s to my Linux box, as
Netserver only seems to work with Windows clients[1]. The cool thing is
the AS/400 can run as an NFS client - in that it can share a directory
off my PC (running an NFS server) and see my drive as part of the IFS
(haven't got that side working yet, though). I can use the full set of
Linux utilities on the NFS mounts, which offers a lot more power than
Qshell, but obviously I need to do this from my PC.

There was a good article on NFS in News/400 recently (I think it was the
May issue) and there's a redbook "Exploring NFS on AS/400, SG24-2158-00"  
available at <http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242158.html>

Although it's a Unix convention, I believe there are clients & servers
for Windows, though I don't know if there are free implementations as per
Linux.

I'm no expert on it, but I'll answer what I can

Regards, Martin
[1] Samba (Unix/Linux version of Windows SMB protocol) doesn't seem to
help here.
-- 
martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities 
Free test environment tools for the AS/400
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