RE: Add an i to QNTC to access it's IFS

As Rob suggests the fastest access is going to be with NFS without a
contest.

A bit of a pain to set up, (UID/GID need to match) but once that's done it's
going to react the same as QNTC. Remember to put the mount etc. into the
start up program.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 12:53 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Add an i to QNTC to access it's IFS

When it works, QNTC works nicely. "When" being the key operative.
In between two IBM i lpars is one thing.
Talking to a PC with the possibility of some galoot building a share bigger
than the recommended length, or, a PC talking to an lpar of IBM i 7.3 using
SMB2 and getting timed out repeatedly, is quite another.

Between two lpars of IBM i you can also use /QFileSvr.400 That has it's own
limitations that you might want to read up on.
No shares needed though.

Using EXPORTFS and MOUNT is the recommended way to go but takes just a
little more thinking (since you can't prompt for the detailed options like
dash this and dash that). They would have used EXPORT like every other
system but that command was already utilized by binder language.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Tom L. Deskevich" <tld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/24/2016 01:40 PM
Subject: Add an i to QNTC to access it's IFS
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



I needed to write an image to the IFS of another i. Initially, I was
thinking doing FTP on the fly. Then I thought, I wonder if I can just do a
MD '/QNTC/<name of the i> and writing it to that path. It worked but just
showed me the shares, which makes sense. I then shared the folder I needed
to write to. And I was surprised that it worked and it was that easy. Did
not see anything on this in all my searching. But it is almost the
equivalent of a DDM file for the IFS. Since I did not find any information
out there on doing this, just wanted to make sure I would not encounter
any
problems.



Tom Deskevich