Fidonet Portal
+ User FidoNet address: 1:396/45
* Original message posted in: COMP-OS2-NETWORK-SERV.
* Crossposted in: OS2.
Hello all.
I want to be able to share my drives in a manner that will enable Ubuntu (linux
based OS) to see them. Will NFS enable me to do that? Can someone give a
brief explanation of what NFS does or how it works?
Is there an "SMB" component that OS/2 can utilise as well?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Marc
-+-timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
... Food is an important part of a well-balanced diet.(Fran Lebowitz)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ The FidoNet News Gate (Meridian, MS - USA) +
+ The views of this user are strictly his or her own. +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:46:55 UTC in comp.os.os2.networking.server, "Marc Lewis"
<Marc.Lewis@p0.f45.n396.z1[.]fidonet[.]org> wrote:
> + User FidoNet address: 1:396/45
> * Original message posted in: COMP-OS2-NETWORK-SERV.
> * Crossposted in: OS2.
> Hello all.
>
> I want to be able to share my drives in a manner that will enable Ubuntu
(linux
> based OS) to see them. Will NFS enable me to do that? Can someone give a
> brief explanation of what NFS does or how it works?
What version of OS/2? Everything from Warp Connect upwards has Peer networking
built-in and this can be used from samba[-client] to map drives on Linux (as
long as what you're sharing on OS/2 are not large JFS formatted drives when you
find that nothing works properly


> Is there an "SMB" component that OS/2 can utilise as well?
Peer.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
Here in comp.os.os2.networking.server,
"Marc Lewis" <Marc.Lewis@p0.f45.n396.z1[.]fidonet[.]org> spake unto us, saying:
>Hello all.
Howdy.

>I want to be able to share my drives in a manner that will enable
>Ubuntu (linux based OS) to see them. Will NFS enable me to do that?
Yes.
>Can someone give a brief explanation of what NFS does or how it works?
NFS stands for Network File System, and it's a UNIX standard method for
sharing filesystems or parts of a filesystem across a network.
Do a search on Google for "NFS FAQ" -- that'll turn up more information
than you probably want to deal with.

>Is there an "SMB" component that OS/2 can utilise as well?
OS/2's native peer-to-peer networking is compatible with Windows CIFS
filesharing (using the same SMB/CIFS protocol that Samba supports).
In addition, Samba itself has been ported to OS/2.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it!
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
+ User FidoNet address: 1:396/45
Hello all.
<On 27Feb2007 23:49 Trevor Hemsley wrote a message to All
regarding Re: NFS >
> I want to be able to share my drives in a manner that
> will enable Ubuntu (linux based OS) to see them. Will
> NFS enable me to do that? Can someone give a brief
> explanation of what NFS does or how it works?
TH> What version of OS/2? Everything from Warp Connect
TH> upwards has Peer networking built-in and this can be
TH> used from samba[-client] to map drives on Linux (as
TH> long as what you're sharing on OS/2 are not large JFS
TH> formatted drives when you find that nothing works
TH> properly


Sorry for the omission. It's Warp 4.52 (Conv Pk 2) FP 6.
The drives are standard HPFS format and they are shared.
WinXP with the NetBEUI protocol added in can see the OS/2
machines' drives (and vice-versa). Ubuntu cannot see them
(yet.

mentioned in one of the Ubuntu docs. I simply don't have
enough experience to know how to properly configure the
built-in OS/2 NFS system. And I don't know what
implications it's use may have on other parts of the
system. (Suppose I could/should sit down and RTFM, but
thought I'd see if I could get some pointers first off.

Granted, NFS has a nice GUI, but it's not, shall we say,
intuitive.
> Is there an "SMB" component that OS/2 can utilise as
> well?
TH> Peer.
Very well. Needless to say, Peer is running.
Any further info will be very much appreciated!
Best regards,
Marc
-+-timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ The FidoNet News Gate (Meridian, MS - USA) +
+ The views of this user are strictly his or her own. +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:16:18 UTC, "Marc Lewis"
<Marc.Lewis@p0.f45.n396.z1[.]fidonet[.]org> wrote:
I would personally avoid using NFS. The OS/2 implementation is rather
buggy, and poorly documented.
> Sorry for the omission. It's Warp 4.52 (Conv Pk 2) FP 6.
> The drives are standard HPFS format and they are shared.
> WinXP with the NetBEUI protocol added in can see the OS/2
> machines' drives (and vice-versa). Ubuntu cannot see them
> (yet.

Samba (on Ubuntu) does not support NETBEUI. It would be better to use
TCPBEUI (default on Windows, easy to add on OS/2 as "NETBIOS over
TCP/IP", what Samba provides on Ubuntu) on all machines.
> Very well. Needless to say, Peer is running.
Just add the "NETBIOS over TCP/IP" protocol.
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:16:18 UTC in comp.os.os2.networking.server, "Marc Lewis"
<Marc.Lewis@p0.f45.n396.z1[.]fidonet[.]org> wrote:
> WinXP with the NetBEUI protocol added in can see the OS/2
> machines' drives (and vice-versa). Ubuntu cannot see them
> (yet.

As others have written, you need TCPBEUI on OS/2 to talk to Samba. Once that's
installed you can remove NETBEUI from XP too.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)