Re: Mapping Shared IFS folders to Mac

For those following this thread ...

Good news and bad.

The good. By far the easiest approach so far - or at least so far that works! Downloaded the required SSHFS stuff and installed - issued the SSHFS command and voila! The connection also seems wayyy faster than the NFS one.

But two bad points. The first is a nit - the mount doesn't show up in any of the usual Mac places so you have to go hunt for it. The second will be a problem and I'm sure there's an easy cure but I haven't time to look for it right now. All the files show up as gibberish. So there's a code page issue here somewhere that I'll have to sort out.

Tha ks to all who have helped - when I finally get this working consistently I'll stick something on the wiki.


Jon Paris

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On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:48 PM, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Jon,

If you're open to alternatives, you might consider using SSHFS. This lets you mount the IFS on your Mac (its available for Windows, Linux, etc too) using the SSH server that runs on IBM i. In my experience this is much more stable than using SMB/CIFS (i.e. Windows Networking) and a lot more secure than using NFS (which really should only be used in a controlled environment such as a VPN or secured LAN)

SSHFS works really well, and uses the underlying cryptography and security of SSH.

I found this tutorial with a quick Google. Check it out!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh


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On 10/21/18 10:22 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

No - I will try that but her machine is a release back from mine - hmmmm - that may be a good thing!


Jon Paris

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On Oct 20, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Richard Schoen via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got it.

Wasn’t sure if you were running a MacOS version that would support RDI.

I saw a couple related samba issues for older versions of MacOs.

Without access to your IBMi machine to try it, it’s hard to say what might be causing the issues.

Your version of MacOs definitely matches mine.
Have you tried it with your wife’s Mac or doesn’t she let you touch it ? 😊

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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Richard,

I'm running the latest incarnation of High Sierra (10.13.6)

Going to update to the latest version but waiting a few weeks more ...

I do use RDi and I do compile from it. But it has really no relevance to the question at hand as not all the files I want to access original from RDi developed code.

I am generating Excel spreadsheets (at the moment) and want a mapped drive to avoid having to copy the files. I could add Excel as an external app in RDi but I'm looking for a solution that won't force me to do that for every file type that I generate on the IBM i now and in the future.

Does that answer your questions?

Jon Paris
www.partner400.com<http://www.partner400.com>
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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I don't know if I ever saw info on what Mac OS version are you running ?

Even if your machine is 8yrs old it should run a newer version of MacOS.

I was testing from a 2011 Macbook Air.

You also never answered the RDI question. Why not use RDI if you're doing IBM i compiling ?

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
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p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 1
date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:56:29 -0400
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Mapping Shared IFS folders to Mac

I know it _should_ Scott. But it doesn't work.

I get the errors noted previously. It is very odd because it appears to partially work (i.e. it will seek authentication etc.) but then fails with a message indicating that the connection type is not accepted at all.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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