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05292014 #1

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MountingcifsonAIX

HiAll,

IwastryingtosetupafilesharebetweenAIXandwidnowsservers.Ihaveinstalledcifsfilesetson
myAIXLPAR.butwheniwastryingtomounttheshareonAIX,gotthebelowerrors.

Code:

Therewasanerrorconnectingtheshareortheserver.
Makesurethelsdevcommandshowsthatdevicensmb0isin

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theAvailablestate.Alsomakesurethatthesharename,
usernameandpasswordareaccurate.

Itriedwithallcombinationsbycleaningthefile"cifscred".Butstillgottheerror.

Code:

[root@AIXLPAR]/>lslppl|grepicifs
bos.cifs_fs.rte7.1.1.15COMMITTEDRuntimeforSMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.smit7.1.0.0COMMITTEDSMITInterfaceforSMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.rte7.1.1.15COMMITTEDRuntimeforSMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.smit7.1.0.0COMMITTEDSMITInterfaceforSMBFS

CananyoneofyouusedCIFSonAIXforfilesharingpurpose?IficanachievefileshareusingCIFS,
thenimaynotgoforsambaserver.

Pleaseprovideyourideas.

Thanks
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Whatisthefullcommandyouused?

Doashowmountetoseewhat'savailabletoyourhost.

We'llgofromthere.

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@aixkidbee

Thanksforyourresponse.Iamabletomountmyworkstation(Windows7Pro)sharedfolderonAIX
LPARusingCIFS.

showmountisnotshowinganythingasitisnotrelatedtoNFS.

Iused

Code:

smittycifs_fs

tomountwindows7shareonAIX.Itworked.ButIamnotabletomountWindows2008R2server's
share.

Note:windows7,windows2008andAIXLPARsareondifferentsubnet.

Iamsuspectingthat,thismayberelatedtofirewall(ports137/138/139/445)

Thanks,

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MountcifsproblemsonAIX

Ihadtosearchthroughvariouswebsiteswithasimilarproblem.Ihave2identicalAIX6.1servers,
sameLPARS,sameTLlevel.Onewouldallowmetoconnecttotheshare(Windows2003),butthe

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otherboxwouldthrow:

Code:

Therewasanerrorconnectingtheshareortheserver.
Makesurethelsdevcommandshowsthatdevicensmb0isin
theAvailablestate.Alsomakesurethatthesharename,
usernameandpasswordareaccurate.

IntheendIcheckedmy/etc/hostsfiles.Thefirstserverhad:
10.137.ip1.ip2server1.domain
anditwouldallowmetoconnectusingtheIPaddress.

Theotherboxhad:
10.137.ip1.ip2server1.domain

andwouldnotallowmetousetheIPaddress.However,Icanusethefullyqualifieddomainname.
Someinconsistencyhere,because2differentservershavesimilarsettings.

Ithenadded:
10.137.ip1.ip2server1server1.domain

andthesecommandswork:

Code:

mountvcifsnserver1.domain/Adminofmode=777/aaa/tmp/aaa
mountvcifsnserver1/Adminofmode=777/aaa/tmp/aaa

Thisonehoweverdoesnotwork:

Code:

mountvcifsn10.137.ip1.ip2/Adminofmode=777/aaa/tmp/aaa

BothserversareinalocalLANandnofirewallsintheway,justtheIPaddresscouldnotbeusedon
onetheservers.Ithinkthewayaserverisdefinedin/etc/hostshasanimpact,checkhowmanylines
youhaveforthesameserverinwhichorder,etc.

Ihopethismayhelpsomepeopleresolveasimilarissue.

Moderator'sComments:

Pleaseusecodetagsnexttimeforyourcodeanddata.Thanks
Andthanksforsharing!

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