Re: How can I see the AS/400 from my Linux box?

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 07 December 2000 16:32, you wrote:
> Samba also comes with an SMB client that is a linux pgm that allows the
> Linux box to see other SMB compatible resources on the LAN like a
> NetServer enabled AS400 or other PC's.
>
> Jerry
>
> PS:  I am in the process of loading this on a Sun Sparc system that is
> also on an AS400 network.  I don't see any problems.  But proof if
> proof.  Samba is available on both Sun, Intel, and Linux, as well as
> other Unix based OS's.

Hi Jerry

If you get this to work I'd be *very* interested. Using smbmount works 
fine for other windows shares but it just hangs my box if I try it on and 
AS/400 share (Mandrake Linux 7.0 & V4R3/R4). NFS works very nicely with 
two exceptions: 1) I can't get at QDLS shared over NFS - the mount 
completes without errors, but attempting to access the mounted directory 
results in a box freeze until it finally comes back with an out of memory 
error. 2) The Linux mount command changed at some point[1] to using TCP 
rather than UDP for NFS shares. The AS/400 only supports UDP[2] so more 
recent distributions just can't get access unless you use an older binary.

I'd be interested in hearing[3] from any other Linux & AS/400 users out 
there on how they get the two to communicate. There doesn't seem to be a 
lot of information on combining the two and I'd like to put some 
resources & pointers on my web site. I'm the only Linux user at my site 
and I'd appreciate finding more people in the same situation.

Regards, Martin

[1] Mandrake 7.0 works with mount version 2.9y. Versions 7.1 & 7.2 with 
2.10 versions don't. SuSE 6.4 works but SuSE 7.0 doesn't.
[2] I found this on a SuSE mailing list from a chap ho upgraded from 6.4 
to 7.0 and hit problems. After tracing what was going on he got in touch 
with IBM to be told the above. He couldn't get QDLS shares to work either 
:-(
[3] Probably best off list - I'll post back when I've got something up 
for people to see.
-- 
martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities 
Free test environment tools for the AS/400 and misc other stuff
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