06-08-2011
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Originally Posted by
kirkb
So No Samba required for AIX to access Windows share? Was told conflicing views. It was my understanding that Samba would only be requred if Windows needed to access files on a AIX sever, not in the direction I note (AIX to access Windows share). Is the previous correct?
Your understanding is correct. Samba sets up a pseudo windows share on a Unix (not only AIX) server which can be seen and written to by authorised users on a Windows domain. Samba can be quite difficult to setup but once complete works perfectly well.
I have never attempted to mount a Windows shared drive onto an AIX machine so I can be of no help to you there.
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masktest
MASKTEST(1) Test Suite MASKTEST(1)
NAME
masktest - Find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.
SYNOPSIS
masktest {//server/share} [-U user%pass] [-d debuglevel] [-W workgroup] [-n numloops] [-s seed] [-a] [-E] [-M max protocol] [-f filechars]
[-m maskchars] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
masktest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between Samba's own implementation and that of a remote server. It will run
generate random filenames/masks and check if these match the same files they do on the remote file as they do on the local server. It will
display any differences it finds.
This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.
OPTIONS
-U user%pass
Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter can be specified twice (once for the first server,
once for the second).
-s seed
Seed the random number generator with the specified value.
-n numops
Set the number of operations to perform.
-a
Print the operations that are performed.
-M max_protocol
Maximum protocol to use.
-f
Specify characters that can be used when generating file names. Default: abcdefghijklm.
-E
Abort when difference in behaviour is found.
-m maskchars
Specify characters used for wildcards.
-v
Be verbose
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
Samba
AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].
masktest was written by Andrew Tridgell.
This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.
NOTES
1. Samba
http://www.samba.org/
2. Samba Team
http://www.samba.org/samba/team/
Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 MASKTEST(1)