Re: Automating file xfer with NFS

Scott, Charles,

 I spent an hour or so yesterday unsuccessfully trying the establish
connectivity to
"/QNTC/some_server/some_share_name/folder_name/file_name.txt".

 The file is visible from Windows Explorer but the iSeries cannot seem to
resolve it, throwing CPFA0A9 'Object not found' messages at me instead. I
tried various combinations of slashes and backslashes but still no joy.

 WRKLNK couldn't find it either so that is when I began to wonder whether
QNTC was somehow limited to shares defined in iNav using Netserver. Or
something like that - hence my comment about 'local PC'.

 If it were simply an authentication issue I would expect some sort of 'not
authorized' message instead of CPFA0A9. Sometimes it is easier to find a
different solution than to open a trouble ticket with the network security
department!

 Many thanks, JK

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Automating file xfer with NFS

Hi JK,

Yes, QNTC is what I'm referring to.

  Using CPY was my first choice, but most of the trade journal articles

and

threads I researched yesterday seemed to focus on using QNTC to pass files
between the IFS and a local PC, rather than a Windows share somewhere on a
corporate network. That's why I started researching NFS.

I don't understand the distinction between 'local PC' and 'Windows share
on a network'.  In both cases it's using a network to access a Windows
share, right?!

If you're able to open it from Windows as:

 \\some_server\some_share_name\folder_name\file_name.txt

Then you should also be able to access it from i as:

 /QNTC/some_server/some_share_name/folder_name/file_name.txt

The only other caveat, is that the system will try to use the same
user/pass that you have logged in to OS/400 to access the Windows
server.  In an automated process, however, this is not usually a big
deal.  Just create a special userid/pass for that process that matches
the name/pass on the server.  That's a much better idea than using an
actual employee's signon anyway...

Then it's just a matter of using CPY (or COPY or QShell cp) to copy the
file from the server's share to the /home directory where you want it.

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