Re: Mapping Shared IFS folders to Mac -- MIDRANGE-L

Well at least the error message is different!

I had to use sudo to create the dir in the root but now get:

JonsMacBook:/ jonparis$ mount ideveloper:/partner400 /NFS
mount_nfs: can't mount /partner400 from ideveloper onto /NFS: Operation not permitted

Tried sudo with that too "just in case" but no luck - same error.

So I checked the folder permissions on NFS and found I had read only - so I changed that to read-write. Same problem but ... when I changed the object I was trying to mount to my personal directory in /Home things changed.

JonsMacBook:/ jonparis$ sudo mount ideveloper:/home/paris /NFS results in the volume apparently being mounted i.e. a disk drive ice shows up in the folder in finder. BUT any attempt to open the folder, ls the files etc. results in a permissions failure.

I just have too much work to do to spend any more time on this ... thanks very much for your help.

P.S. For you does the minted drive show up in the finder list in the left hand pane? It doesn't for me.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:53 AM, B. Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry Jon, I left that step out. I did a mkdir /NFS right off the root.

On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The ifs and smb just fails as before Bryan.

The NFS mount fails too.

mount ideveloper:/partner400 /NFS
mount: realpath /NFS: No such file or directory

I googled a little and found a post that indicated that I needed to create the folder NFS in the Volumes directory. I did this but it made no difference.

Where on your Mac is the NFS directory?

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:12 AM, B. Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon, My IBM i that I can connect to from my mac is v7.1, so not sure the netserver example applies.

I have two shares defined on my i “/“ and “/home”. From ‘finder’ i tried to map the “/“ using cifs://1.2.3.4 that does not work.
When I tried connecting to “cifs://1.2.3.4/home” that works.

the same was true for “smb://1.2.3.4” (failed) and "smb://1.2.3.4/home” (works)

I called my root directory share “ROOT” and when I did smb://1.2.3.4/ROOT that worked as well.

I then tried NFS.

on my mac I created a directory /NFS and on my i, I did the following:
EXPORTFS OPTIONS('-i') DIR('/home’)
STRNFSSVR SERVER(*ALL)

then from a terminal prompt on the mac:

mount 1.2.3.4:/home /NFS

It shows up as “home” in ‘finder’ and in ‘Shared’ and “devices” ‘MacBook Air”
from terminal window ls -la /NFS shows the contents of the IBM i /home directory

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hope it helps.
Bryan

*veryold IBM doc
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1016376&aid=2
*veryold article:
https://www.mcpressonline.com/operating-systems/unix-aix/how-to-become-an-as400-nfs-export-expert

On Oct 17, 2018, at 6:09 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just to add to the silliness ...

If in the connection string I simply put the system name i.e. smb://ideveloper <smb://ideveloper> then it clearly connects because it then produces a list of the available shares - and it is the correct list as per GO NETS and the web thingy.

However, as soon as I select the one i need I am back to the "URLs of type smb: are not supported by this server - which is silly 'cos it just showed me a list of them,

Hopefully this will give someone a hint.

Jon Paris

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