On Apr 24, 6:16 am, "Basil Holloway" wrote:
> Have installed Samba 2.2.7-4 on a AIX 5.2 box as server.
> Can sought of connect to Samba server from Windows boxes, (still plenty of
> access denied and password errors) to the point where I can copy files off
> the AIX Samba server into XP, W2k and W98 clients. Still working on W95,
> WFWG and DOS boxes.
>
> Two areas mystify me where I just cannot get off the ground.
>
> (1) To set up an AIX 5.3 and AIX 4.3 box as clients, ( which I presume would
> be the same for Solaris and BSD boxes ) to copy files off the AIX 5.2 Samba
> Server, do I install Samba Client and Samba Common 2.2.7-4 off the IBM
> website onto the 5.3 and 4.3 boxes. What procedure is used on the AIX
> clients to get files off the server ie a sought of Windows Explorer setup.
>
> (2) What is the procedure for a AIX Samba Server to get files off a Windows
> Client. I tried to push files from the Windows client to the Server but it
> did not like the idea. Just kept getting permission denied even using the
> directory Windows used to get files off the server.
>
> This is all happening on a P2P Workgroup Lan where everyone can ping
> everyone else.
>
> Read heaps of articles but found nothing to get me started.
>
> Sorry to take you back into the dark ages.
>
> Thanks


We serve a number of PCs and AIX boxes from a common scratch
filesystem. This allows everyone to access and transfer files with
no controls.

The PCs mount as their H: drive using samba:

[drive_h]
comment = drive H partition
path = /array/esd/drive_h
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
preserve case = yes
oplocks = no

The AIX boxes mount the same storage with native NFS. oplocks = no
was added to prevent some interaction with Windows access which I
don't recall.

This system is quite old:
AIX 4.3.3
Samba version 2.0.6