Re: Writing to a Windows server instead of to the IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

Booth

Both the NFS and QNTC are fairly transparent, once they are set up. They are both like windows mapped drives - network file shares - and, yes, you DO just type in the path name - once you've mounted the access point to get to the other system.

NFS has the lesser pain - you don't have to match user ID and password, as you do with QNTC. In fact, you can set up - on the Windows machine - anonymous access but limited to a certain host - the IP address of your iSeries. We have step by step instructions for this on our wiki - it's really not hard and is done just once. Then you have to be sure to mount that share at IPL.

The anonymous access gets around the possible complexity of using the UID/GID stuff - don't have to use that at all, but you are exposed to some degree.

Try http://wiki.rjssoftware.com/wiki and search for NFS there.

HTH
Vern

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From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Man, I can be dense. None of these answers look easy & straight forward.

I am using Scott Klement's examples to write a PC file to the IFS of the
System i. It uses a path & file name, which of course I expect. It
occurs to me that one can type in any path name and there is no real
reason that it won't write directly to what ever is at that path?

But like so many things, it just isn't so. My first question is: Am I
dreaming? Is it really simple, or is it a lot of hoop-jumping and
therefore of limited value??

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Although we do sometimes have customers use QNTC to put documents on a

Windows, be strongly urge the use of NFS - network file system - every
Unix/Linux box already probably has this, and there is a free install from MS
for Windows. It is usually set up for anonymous access from a limited list of
hosts (IP addresses) but can be secured using the UID/GID functionality - we
have those in our user profiles now - just a glorified Unix box we is!!

You could go to our site - www.rjssoftware.com - go to the support link there

and then to our wiki - do a search for NFS - we have a couple articles on
setting things up, including the MS install.

Once set up, it works basically the same as QNTC - a mount of the remote share

- but it works so much faster.

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "DeLong, Eric"

QNTC....

The QNTC file system is intended to provide access to Windows Networking

Shares,

aka Network Neighborhood from a few years back.

The trick with QNTC is that you cannot directly control the user credentials
used to open the connection. The system uses whatever profile/password is in
effect for the job that is accessing the network share.

What I did, when I needed to have standardized read/write access across

network

shares, was to create a profile in the iSeries AND in Windows domain, that

have

EXACTLY the same login credentials on both sides. For illustration, we'll

call

it NETUSER....

Now, before you try to read or write through the QNTC filesystem, you need to
use the QSYGETPH, QWTSETP, and QSYRLSPH api's to do the following:

Get the CURRENT profile handle (OldProfHdl)....
Get the NETUSER profile handle (NewProfHdl)
Swap the job to NewProfHdl

Do your read/write via IFS /QNTC/......

Swap the job to OldProfHdl
Release NewProfHdl
Release OldProfHdl

Now, ensure that each of the network shares that you need to access will

allows

access to the NETUSER profile.

Easy, right?

Let me know if you need more...
Eric

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:04 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Writing to a Windows server instead of to the IFS

Writing to a Windows server instead of to the IFS

Scott Klement's programs for writing CSV files to the IFS is pretty
spiffy and an emotional lift! Man, its a nice feeling to map the IFS to
my PC and open a csv file with Open Office with no file transfers, etc.

It raises the obvious question however. Can we also write directly to a
Windows server? And, if so, how do we submit the User/password?

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