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I will expand on this - Samba is open-source - I think I saw some mention
of that in IBM's announcement about this.
The addition of Samba support was in response to concerns about
performance problems in NetServer - I was involved in some of those
discussions.
It is not clear to me that Samba is in use with QNTC - it seems from
reading the docs that it is only for NetServer - as I see it, those are 2
different directions. Samba support is discussed in the context of a Linux
box having access to IBM i resources with file sharing.
From a wiki I just glanced at, it seems that SMB is a protocol used by
Windows file sharing -
Andrew Tridgell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell> started
the development of Samba, a free-software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Free-software> re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol for
Unix-like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like> systems, in 1991.
So the lines are rather blurred, seems to me!! :)
Article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
I hope to get a better understanding of this stuff soon - will be
requesting a call with IBMers to hear more. I'll pass along what I can here
(NDA in effect).
Cheers
Vern
On 9/3/2014 7:38 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
Samba is Windows file sharing for Linux..--
Netserver / QNTC is Windows file sharing for IBM i.
AFAIK, a Linux box with Samba has always worked with Netserver / QNTC.
My understanding is that the 7.2 Samba support replaces the IBM
Netserver/QNTC code with Samba to provide better (more current) support of
Windows file sharing.
NFS has always and is still probably a better choice for IBM i <-- -->
Linux.
Charles
Charles
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
LOL - but at least they finally gave it to you, man!!
It's not clear to me whether this support is server-only - so that Linux
clients can use NetServer - so I'm not sure if Samba is usable in
mounting
to something outside the IFS - in other words, can the IBM i be a Samba
client yet?
Hmmm!
On 9/2/2014 4:43 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
You can do CPY to an NFS or QTNC (Netbios share) if you have the correct
permissions.This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
We have always found copying to an NFS share to be much more stable.
In regards to the Samba support in V7R2, first you need V7R2 :-)
Then you need someone at IBM to be able to give you instructions on how
to use it.
I wasn't able to get good test instructions from the folks at IBM so my
testing has been waylaid since I'm not a Unix super-expert :-)
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date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:35:30 -0400
from: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Can the to path on CPY, CPYTOIMPF, etc be a remote server
instead of the IFS?
Can the to path on CPY, CPYTOIMPF, etc be a remote server instead of the
IFS?
Any config and/or setup to make this work?
Any good docs and/or links on this?
Thank You
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