Well I never used Samba. I assume Samba is like full solution to do much more than mounting fs over network.
If I need to do simle mount in whatever direction I do:
AIX->Windows cifs
Windows->AIX nfs
To my opinion it's much easier to install single package on your important AIX box than configure Samba.
For example to mount windows share on AIX using cifs:
Smith path:
"smit->Communications Applications and Services->cifs_fs for AIX"
Hi,
How can I mount a Windows share (over samba) on an AIX machine?
I know there is a utility called smbmount on Linux, but alas, I cannot find out how to the same thing on AIX.
anyone have any ideas?
thanks! (3 Replies)
How in AIX 5.1 can I access a windows shared drive without using NFS. I have looked into cifs but I can not seem to find the package that I need to install for AIX 5.1 if anyone can give me any further direction please let me know. (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am basically new to this forum as well as AIX. To share some huge files between 2 servers I thought of creating a shared Directory in my AIX machine to access it in Solaris. I am very new to this AIX. Help me out how can u share a directory in AIX to access (mount) it on Solaris.
Hope... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Hopefully this question hasn't been asked a thousand times. I am trying to connect a Windows Server to an exported NFS share which resides on an AIX box.
I think the directory is exported correctly from the AIX side but I can't verify that because I didn't do it myself. On the... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I've been using AIX cifs to mount windows XP shares with no problems till now.
Now it's Windows Server 2008 R2 - no go:
mount -v cifs -n host1/user1/pass1 /share1 /mountpt1
There was an error connecting the share or the server.
Make sure the lsdev command shows that device nsmb0 is in... (6 Replies)
how to access windows share from a linux box
windows machin is in different workgroup so
how to pass credentials whil acessing a share from a script (2 Replies)
Hi,
How can we share a AIX drive on to Windows 2012 server. or vise versa.
Note: Not using NFS/CIFS/samba. (*we are not able to use samba/NFS/CIFS for some reason)
Requirement: How to have real time file sharing over the network between Windows and UNIX
Do you guys have any ... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to connect to two samba shares both on the same Linux box but each with a different username from a windows server 2008. I created 2 gpos to connect and I can connect to the shares individually via net use command, but once I entered credentials for one of the shares, it seems I... (1 Reply)
Hi All
Actually I have NAS Storage and Suddenly I got problem
Unable to access the CIFS share folder on windows host, however the IP is pinging and the share is accessible via share name.
The share can be accessed via share name only on Windows higher Windows Versions.
Any help guys (4 Replies)
I am running AIX 7.1 and currently we have samba 3.6.25 installed on the server. As it stands some AIX folders are shared that can be accessed by certain Windows users.
The problem is that since Windows 10 the guest feature no longer works so users have to manually type in their Windows login/pwd... (14 Replies)
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cifs.idmap
CIFS.IDMAP(8) System Administration tools CIFS.IDMAP(8)NAME
cifs.idmap - Userspace helper for mapping ids for Common Internet File System (CIFS)
SYNOPSIS
cifs.idmap [--version|-v] {keyid}
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the cifs-utils suite.
cifs.idmap is a userspace helper program for the linux CIFS client filesystem. There are a number of activities that the kernel cannot
easily do itself. This program is a callout program that does these things for the kernel and then returns the result.
cifs.idmap is generally intended to be run when the kernel calls request-key(8) for a particular key type. While it can be run directly
from the command-line, it is not generally intended to be run that way.
cifs.idmap works in conjuction with winbind facility of Samba suite to map owner and group SIDs to uids and gids respectively. It is best
utilized when
- a mount option of cifsacl is specified when mounting a cifs share
- winbind is specified as one of the search entries for passwd and group databases in file /etc/nsswitch.conf
- file smb.conf has winbind specific entries
- winbind daemon program is running
In case winbind and cifs.idmap facilities are unavailable, file objects in a mounted share are assigned uid and gid of the credentials of
the process that mounted the share. So it is strongly recomemended to use mount options of uid and gid to specify a default uid and gid to
map owner SIDs and group SIDs respectively in case services of winbind and cifs.idmap facility are unavailable.
OPTIONS
--version|-v
Print version number and exit.
CONFIGURATION FOR KEYCTL
cifs.idmap is designed to be called from the kernel via the request-key callout program. This requires that request-key be told where and
how to call this program. Currently cifs.idmap handles a key type of:
cifs.idmap
This keytype is for mapping a SID to either an uid or a gid
To make this program useful for CIFS, you will need to set up entry for it in request-key.conf(5). Here is an example of an entry for this
key type:
#OPERATION TYPE D C PROGRAM ARG1 ARG2...
#========= ============= = = ================================
create cifs.idmap * * /usr/sbin/cifs.idmap %k
See request-key.conf(5) for more info on each field.
NOTES
Support for upcalls to cifs.idmap was initially introduced in the 3.0 kernel.
SEE ALSO request-key.conf(5), mount.cifs(8)AUTHOR
Shirish Pargaonkar wrote the cifs.idmap program.
The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs.
cifs-utils 05/26/2011 CIFS.IDMAP(8)