Re: as400 as a samba/nt client

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:58 05/07/2003, Chad Whitten wrote:
> is it possible to mount a samba/windows nt file share to a local folder on 
> the as400?
> we have on our as400 a web app that generates reports and such.

Assuming that netserver is running, the NT share must be in the same domain 
as the AS400. Supposedly, the shares will get mounted automatically at IPL 
time, but maybe only if they are in the same segment as the AS400. I've 
never had that luxury. All of our NT share names end in "$", so I always 
have to run MKDIR /QNTC/sharename, after which they are visible. MKDIR runs 
verrrrry slowly, but once mounted, data access seems quite reasonable. In 
order to access the data from the AS400, the user name and password must be 
identical on the AS400 and the NT domain. If that's not possible, you can 
get around the requirement by obtaining a profile handle to a user ID that 
does have an identical password on both systems. It's not necessary to know 
the password, as long as the real user has *USE authority for the profile 
being adopted. With a little up front effort it has worked pretty well for us.


Pete Hall
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