Re: qntc - netapp box

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:53 11/22/2003, Mark Phippard wrote:

> What version of OS/400 are you on?
>
> Until recently, QNTC only supported Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 and had specific
> checks that would cause that.  When they added Linux to the iSeries, they
> started supporting Samba with QNTC.  So, in theory, that might open up the
> ability to connect to other boxes.
>
> Your appliance probably supports NFS, you might give that a try.

We're on V5R1 at the moment. I'm trying to make some existing apps work 
that were written to use qntc, so they've got all the conditional mkdir 
stuff built in. Engineering snuck this one in when we weren't looking. The 
Netapp box seems to support all versions of Windows. We've got plenty of 
old NT4 boxes around, and I haven't heard of any other problems, just that 
the AS400 can't access the share. IBM said qntc would support Samba. They 
suggested that maybe it had something to do with SMB signing being active, 
which qntc doesn't support, but that was before I realized I wasn't working 
with a windows server. Maybe Samba is using SMB signing, but wouldn't that 
cause problems with the NT4 workstations? The only error message we've been 
able to identify says that either the server isn't active, or it's using an 
unsupported protocol. I guess maybe that could point to SMB signing?!? 
Anyway, we sent a trace to netapp, but they don't seem to be falling all 
over themselves to fix it.


Pete Hall
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