RE: How can I see the AS/400 from my Linux box?

[Andre M�ller <andre.mueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Booth,

You wanted to know how to to find out, in which way the filesystems on that
box are shared.
They must be shared via SMB, because Windows can?t access NFS-Volumes
without any additional software.

What Linux-Distribution does he use ? Red Hat ? SuSE ? Corel Linux for
example provides a filemanager like the Win-Explorer and something like the
"Network neighbourhood", where you can do exactly the same to map that drive
as if you�re running Windows.  If you don�t like Corel, you can check out
the K-Desktop Enviroment (KDE) 2.0.This is a GUI for linux.  It provides a
filemanager/ webbrowser named "Konqueror" and does the same thing, and it�s
available for Red Hat, Suse, Debian etc.

If  the linux box has no GUI, you have the following options:

The simplest thing you  can do is install smbclient (part of the
samba-suite) on that linux box and do a

" smbclient \\Server(or IP-adress)\Service"

for example :

smbclient \\AS400\tmp

on the CLI.

This works quiet fine, and you don�t have to configure or use the
SAMBA-Server.smbclient is ready to work without any configuration!!! See the
manualpage for further options.

If you don�t want to use SMB or install smbclient you can use NFS. Linux
supports that native without any additional software. In that case, you only
have to edit  the file /etc/exports (fill in the filesystem you want to
share) on the 400 and start the NFS-Server.

Be sure, that the RPC-Portmapper on the linux box is running and do a:

mount -t (type of the filesystem, like msdos, vfat etc.) nfs //Server:/share
/mountpoint ( The specified directory must exist on the linux box !!!!! You
have to create an empty directory befor you can do this with "mkdir
/directoryname")

for example:

mount - t nfs  AS400:/tmp     /as400share

That�s all !!!!

If you want to mount the AS400 NFS-shares permanent, you have to edit the
file /etc/fstab on the linux box. (You have to be root to do this !!!)

It looks like:

LABEL=/           /                               ext2
exec,dev,suid,rw,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
/dev/cdrom            /mnt/cdrom                iso9660     noauto,owner,ro
0 0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy                 auto
owner,noexec,dev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda2          swap                          swap        defaults
0 0
AS400:/tmp           /as400share                nfs
exec,dev,nosuid,rw 1 1

If you don�t want that the share is mounted by the system at boot time,
choose "noauto" , if you choose this option you have to mount it by hand
with " mount /as400share".

Hope that helps........

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