I'm wanting to write files each night from an RS/6000 running AIX 4.2.1 to a machine in my Windows domain. I have samba set up on the AIX box, and Windows users can happily access the AIX box but am having issues when wanting to write files in the other direction.

From searching around the net I can't find any information that looks particularly helpful for me as a 4.2.1 user. I would think installing CIFS support would be the simplest way to do this, and found some info stating I can install CIFS from the installation CD but I can't find any CIFS stuff on my install discs and I'm thinking perhaps it wasn't part of the install discs in 4.2.1

Does this sound reasonable? Would CIFS be the obvious way to mount a Windows share under AIX? Is this possible in AIX 4.2.1? If so, can I download the CIFS install material from somewhere or is it on the discs and I'm just not looking hard enough?

I also found stuff about Fast Connect that looked helpful, but it doesn't look like that is supported under 4.2.1

Anyway, if someone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated... also, it does look like CIFS is not already installed... I had thought to check that

Just install (if it is not already there) the Samba or smb client on the AIX box and connect the shares on the Window's side with it.

From what I've read from googling this, the smb client is CIFS? Are these different things? My particular issue is that I can't seem to find any reference of an smb client that I can install on AIX 4.2.1

If you know of any info on a way to install the smb client onto AIX 4.2.1 could you point me in that direction? Unfortunately my AIX skills are pretty much non-existant, and I'm having great trouble finding info relevant to 4.2.1

edit: I just found that smbclient is actually installed... now I just need to figure out how to use it to mount a Windows share on AIX

edit yet again: I think smbtar is actually exactly what I might need... I wanted to tar archives to a Windows/SMB share, and it looks like someone has already had this great idea before me ;-)