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Mounting a Solaris filesystem - Sep. 20, '05, 5:37:39 PM   
wkshaw

 

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I have three XP systems that need to access an export from a
Solaris 9 system. I can make this work by creating a passwd and group
file and placing the files on each XP system. Is there a cleaner way of doing
this? Ideas welcome.

TIA -Kevin
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RE: Mounting a Solaris filesystem - Sep. 20, '05, 8:00:16 PM   
Rodney

 

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Export the Solaris filesystem with NFS.
Install NFS client, NFS server and Username mapping on the XP boxes.
Use the NFS client on the XP boxes to mount the Solaris NFS export.
Set up the Username Mapping so that UID's/GID's from the Solaris box can be mappinged to SID's on the XP boxes.
There is on-line help about setting up NFS client and Username mapping off of the Start-> Programs-> Services for UNIX menu.

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RE: Mounting a Solaris filesystem - Sep. 20, '05, 8:23:55 PM   
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Rodney,

Thanks for your reply.

I know I can configure PCNFSD on the Sun. Install SFU using
the defaults and manually nfs mount a filesystem.On the PC:
mount -o pcnfs=10.238.56.252 -u:username -p:"password" \\server\export\path x:
This works like a champ however its not very secure. I would prefer using a GUI
to make this happen.

I can create a passwd and group file and place them in C:\SFU. I can tell SFU to
use these files for mapping. This works also, the down side is creating the files
and maintaining these files on each PC

I wonder if I'm missing something? Can you be more specific on setting up user name mapping?

TIA
-Kevin

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RE: Mounting a Solaris filesystem - Sep. 20, '05, 11:47:25 PM   
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On the Solaris side to export the fileystem to the SFU NFS client you don't use pcnfsd.
You just set the fileystem up for export in the same manner you would for any other
Unix system. Then the permissions for the filesystem remain the same: uid's and gid's
are the same. For access the client side (on SFU) accepts and sends these id's. Thus
for all purposes the Solaris system seems SFU as "just another Unix running NFS version 3".

The username mapping, essentially, is a table to map between the uid's/gid's from the Solaris
side to the user/group accounts on the Windows side. You can set it up so that for username
mapping that a central machine/server handles this on one machine. The ".maphosts" file on
this machine will have a list of hosts that can access this information.
You can use the file combo of passwd/group or reference an NIS server.

I'll point you at a white paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/nfsauth.mspx
which covers most of the details I think you're looking for. Or at least it'll
provide the basis of what-what and available/configurable.

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