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Operating Systems AIX Access AIX NFS Share from Windows Server 2008 Post 302440571 by ThePistonDoctor on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 02:40:36 PM

07-27-2010

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Thanks again for the help everyone. While I am familiar with Samba and have used it to share a Linux volume to Windows clients before, it would be much more work than to just figure it out with NFS given the setup of the rest of the network and the other systems that access this directory.

That being said, I ran the showmount -e command against the AIX server (from Windows Server 2008 command prompt) and it produced an export list including /usershome (the directory I'm trying to mount on windows) and it says it is available to "all machines."

1. How can I verify that both servers are using TCP or UDP?

2. To your point about firewalls, the servers in question are both in the internal network and not touching the firewall. The windows box has the firewall turned off entirely but the AIX box I know nothing about the firewall. If there's a way to verify it's not being blocked there I'm all ears.

3. One thing that I do see could be causing a problem: The 2008 server is on a different domain than the AIX server. In other words the host name of the 2008 server is 2008server.inside.mycompany where the host name of the AIX server is AIXserver.mycompany.com. We are in a transitional period and will eventually move all systems to a single internal domain name which will be "inside.mycompany" but in the mean time we need to deal with issues that could be caused by the separation.

4. How can I verify that my Windows server can respond to RPC calls from the AIX server? (Sorry, I'm new at this)

Again I appreciate all the help!

Edit: BTW I have root/admin access to all servers if needed.

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showmount

showmount(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      showmount(8)

NAME

       showmount - Shows remote NFS compatible mounts on a host

SYNOPSIS

       showmount [-adeT] [-t nnn] [host]

FLAGS

       Lists  all mount points in the form: hostname:dirpath. In this form, hostname is the name of a client that has remotely mounted a directory
       from an NFS server, and dirpath is the directory that has been mounted.	Lists only directories that have been remotely mounted by clients.
       Shows  host's  exports  list.  Specifies an infinite timeout.  The default timeout value is 25 seconds.	Specifies a timeout value, in sec-
       onds.  The default timeout value is 25 seconds.

       The default value for host is the current hostname.

DESCRIPTION

       The showmount command shows status information about the NFS server on host. By default, it prints the names of all  hosts  that  have  NFS
       file  systems  mounted  from  the  server  host.   See  NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC1094, Appendix A for a detailed
       description of the protocol.

NOTES

       The mountd daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless. showmount will only  dis-
       play the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.

       The default timeout value of 25 seconds can be too brief to read and verify an export list.  If you receive timeout messages when using the
       showmount -e command, use either the -T or the -t options to increase the timeout value.

FILES

       Specifies the command path Contains a table of local file systems mounted by remote NFS clients

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: mount(8)

       Daemons: mountd(8)

       Files: mountdtab(4) delim off

																      showmount(8)