Re: Writing to a Windows server instead of to the IFS

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Booth,

I guess I don't really understand the problem.   You say you want to 
write to a windows PC.  Let's assume that the Windows PC is named 
BOOTHSPC and on that PC is a shared named "SharedDir".

You code your open statement like this:

     filename = '/QNTC/BOOTHSPC/SharedDir/MyFile.txt';
     fd = open( %trimr(filename): O_CREAT+O_WRONLY; S_IRWXU);

That's pretty much it.  Just by starting the filename with 
'/QNTC/BOOTHSPC/SharedDir' the system will automatically connect to 
BOOTHSPC, log in (using the userid/password you're signed into i5/OS 
under) and create the file on that PC.

How could it be more easy/straightforward that that?

Things only get tricky when your Windows network won't let i5/OS 
connect, or when your userid/password on i5/OS doesn't match the ones 
that Windows accepts.


Booth Martin wrote:
> Man, I can be dense.  None of these answers look easy & straight forward.
>
> I am using Scott Klement's examples to write a PC file to the IFS of the 
> System i.  It uses a path & file name, which of course I expect.  It 
> occurs to me that one can type in any path name and there is no real 
> reason that it won't write directly to what ever is at that path?
>
> But like so many things, it just isn't so.  My first question is: Am I 
> dreaming?  Is it really simple, or is it a lot of hoop-jumping and 
> therefore of limited value??