Mounting an AIX folder onto Windows 2000 Server

[Mitchell]

Good Morning :) We are using AIX 5.3 on a p550. We need to transfer
data to it from windows 2000 server. Both servers on on the same
network segment. ftp has been too slow as some of these files are huge.

Isn't there a way to use NFS to share a folder on AIX so that I can see
it while on windows 2000 server ? I expect that on Windows 2000 server
I will need to load file sharing services for Unix.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Mitchell
mitc...@mrmarking.com

[Jeffry...@gmail.com]

exportfs requires an NFS client on the Windows machines.
Use Samba to export a filesystem from AIX as SMB.

[F. Michael Orr]

On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:58:30 -0700, Jeffry...@gmail.com wrote:

> exportfs requires an NFS client on the Windows machines.
> Use Samba to export a filesystem from AIX as SMB.

That will work. Another option is to use Cygwin on the Windows server to
get NFS access to the AIX box. It depends on where you want your focus;
if you export NFS mounts from the AIX box to a lot of other Unix boxen,
then the Cygwin/NFS mount method makes sense, as it makes the Windows box
"act" like a Linux box. If, OTOH, you have a lot of Windows boxes that
should see the AIX directory, Samba makes more sense, because the AIX box
can be part of a Windows domain. If this is a one-to-one thing, then look
at both solutions and see which one you (the OP) are more comfortable
with. I have set both up; and in balance they're about equal in
complexity.

[dhof...@cerner.com]

Mitchell wrote:
> Good Morning :) We are using AIX 5.3 on a p550. We need to transfer
> data to it from windows 2000 server. Both servers on on the same
> network segment. ftp has been too slow as some of these files are huge.
>
> Isn't there a way to use NFS to share a folder on AIX so that I can see
> it while on windows 2000 server ? I expect that on Windows 2000 server
> I will need to load file sharing services for Unix.
>

You could load a PC-NFS client or the Microsoft Windows Services for
UNIX application on the Windows server. Another option would be to use
CIFS. Adding bos.cifs_fs to the AIX server would allow you to mount a
Windows fileshare onto the AIX server.

[Markus Baertschi]

In article <1147273014.644880.165670
@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, volta...@gmail.com says...

> Good Morning :) We are using AIX 5.3 on a p550. We need to transfer
> data to it from windows 2000 server. Both servers on on the same
> network segment. ftp has been too slow as some of these files are huge.
>
> Isn't there a way to use NFS to share a folder on AIX so that I can see
> it while on windows 2000 server ? I expect that on Windows 2000 server
> I will need to load file sharing services for Unix.

Sharing folders/filesystems is certainly more convenient than ftp,
but I don't think it will be faster !
Can you be more specific about your situation (file size, network
type, etc) ? We might then be able to help with the speed problem.

Markus
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