RE: QNTC question -- MIDRANGE-L

Rob

QNTC and NetServer are part of the same thing - basically, QNTC is client to Windows file shares, NetServer makes the iSeries a server of file shares. They combine to provide Windows networking on iSeries.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/web/netserver/common/v5r2smb/QNTC_F03.pdf gives more information - foil 15 says a prerequisite for QNTC is to have Netserver active.

http://www.ariadnesoftware.co.uk/IFS.htm is a good link - seems you might not need MKDIR if your iSeries and Windows boxes are in the same domain - otherwise you do.

NFS has both client and server support on iSeries. As a client, you mount a remote NFS share to a directory on iSeries. This is similar to MKDIR in QNTC. As an NFS server, you set up NFS shares on iSeries that other systems can have access to - that's the same as NetServer, functionally.

AFAIK!
Vern

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From: rob@xxxxxxxxx

I -think- people use NFS as a replacement for Netserver, not QNTC.
Netserver allows you to configure shares on your iSeries that other
servers and clients can map to. Netserver and NFS are commonly used so
other servers and clients can access the i.
The process so that the i can access shares on other servers and clients
is QNTC.

When you do a WRKLNK '/QNTC/*' you should be able to see a list of every
client and server in your network. It can be quite extensive - mine was.
I saw other lpars and a large plethora of other servers and clients. I
did NOT do a MKDIR or MD for each and every entry.

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First, I wanted to "open" a folder to a Sharepoint server and let that box
take stuff that we are placing into an IFS folder. This was before we
figured out that NFS is a better solution than QNTC.

Second, BRMS was unable to get a complete backup because the Sharepoint
box
had a lock on the NFS folder. We finally were able to get that resolved.

Third, when I look into the QNTC folder, I'm seeing lots of objects with
DDIR as their attribute, including the folder I created with MKDIR
/QNTC/Sharepoint I would expect to see only the folder I had created.

Fourth, when the operator initiates a GO SAVE 21 via Ops Console, the
console locks up. Here's his description of the problem:

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Screen goes blank except for input inhibited
Sits there for 12 hours
Have to close console session and restart console
Checked tape from save listing contents to spool file
Last thing saved was document library objects

That's locked up.>>

I would call it something else, but that's beside the point. I'm going to
try to get a job log from him, but I'm in Texas, he's in Kentucky, and the
box is in Cleveland.

Paul Nelson
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Paul,

I am losing something in translation and I want to make sure that I am not

assuming anything. By "make the system available some Wintel
servers" do you mean make some Wintel servers available to the iSeries by
drilling down through QNTC, or do you mean you want to make the iSeries
available to the Wintel servers by the Wintel servers being able to map a
drive to a directory on the iSeries? When you said QNTC I am assuming the

former.

I would think that a full system save (GO SAVE, 21) would, implicitly,
omit QNTC. Otherwise, in a shop with hundreds of devices listed in qntc a

backup would run "for ever". And some shops would give their "left one"
to be able to back up their PC's this way. I can't seem to save any files

on my PC with
SAV DEV('/qsys.lib/rob.lib/rob.file')
OBJ(('/qntc/gdsl61/qtemp/emaillist'))
CPD3775
Cause . . . . . : The system does not allow object
/qntc/gdsl61/qtemp/emaillist to be saved or restored.

So, exactly what problems are you encountering?

Rob Berendt
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If I set up a directory in QNTC to make the system available some Wintel
servers, what is the best way to deactivate this without losing anything
on
the System i side of the house? I have had a problem with backups and even

a
full system save ever since.

Paul Nelson
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