RE: Mounting NFS file share

["Mike Cunningham" <MCUNNING@xxxxxxx>]

When a user logs on to Windows, can active directory be used to map a
drive to the IFS (via NetServer) just like mapping a drive to a Windows
file server? If it can, do iSeries userids/passwords have to match the
users Windows userid/password? (my guess is yes) And how is authority
controlled? Do you have to tell both AD and OS/400 what the user has
access to? 

> > > midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/13/2006 1:12:38 AM >>>

> Just to be clear - NetServer - which uses /QNTC - is not related to
NFS, 
> except by accident of some similar names.

Just to be clear about being clear :)   NetServer is the program that
lets 
Windows and Samba clients access the IFS on your System i.  NetServer 
makes your System i appear in "Network Neighborhood".  In other words,

NetServer is the Windows Networking server for the System i.

/QNTC is not NetServer.  It's "iSeries NetClient" (though they've
probably 
changed the name to "i5 NetClient" nowadays).

/QNTC is the client-side that lets i5/OS access Windows and Samba
servers. 
NetServer is the server-side that lets Windows and Samba clients access
an 
i5/OS server.

They are related, but they're opposites.  Just as Firefox is 
the opposite of an Apache server.

/QNTC on the iSeries does read and use some of the configuration
settings 
that are configured in NetServer, and that might create the illusion
that 
they're the same thing, but they're not :)