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

Thanks Scott - I'll check it out.

Thanks to some help from Bryan I did finally get NFS to work yesterday but frankly I had tweaked so many bits and pieces by the time I finished that I'm less than certain what the final "cure" was. I _think_ it was setting my user profile as the one to use for the share. All the error messages were indicating security issues and although I had set the share to use system authentication it was never prompting for usr Id and pw.

Hopefully this will be a smoother and easier path.

Jon Paris

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On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:48 PM, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Jon,

If you're open to alternatives, you might consider using SSHFS. This lets you mount the IFS on your Mac (its available for Windows, Linux, etc too) using the SSH server that runs on IBM i. In my experience this is much more stable than using SMB/CIFS (i.e. Windows Networking) and a lot more secure than using NFS (which really should only be used in a controlled environment such as a VPN or secured LAN)

SSHFS works really well, and uses the underlying cryptography and security of SSH.

I found this tutorial with a quick Google. Check it out!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

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On 10/21/18 10:22 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

No - I will try that but her machine is a release back from mine - hmmmm - that may be a good thing!

Jon Paris

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www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Oct 20, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Richard Schoen via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Got it.

Wasn’t sure if you were running a MacOS version that would support RDI.

I saw a couple related samba issues for older versions of MacOs.

Without access to your IBMi machine to try it, it’s hard to say what might be causing the issues.

Your version of MacOs definitely matches mine.
Have you tried it with your wife’s Mac or doesn’t she let you touch it ? 😊

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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Richard,

I'm running the latest incarnation of High Sierra (10.13.6)

Going to update to the latest version but waiting a few weeks more ...

I do use RDi and I do compile from it. But it has really no relevance to the question at hand as not all the files I want to access original from RDi developed code.

I am generating Excel spreadsheets (at the moment) and want a mapped drive to avoid having to copy the files. I could add Excel as an external app in RDi but I'm looking for a solution that won't force me to do that for every file type that I generate on the IBM i now and in the future.

Does that answer your questions?

Jon Paris
www.partner400.com<http://www.partner400.com>
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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I don't know if I ever saw info on what Mac OS version are you running ?

Even if your machine is 8yrs old it should run a newer version of MacOS.

I was testing from a 2011 Macbook Air.

You also never answered the RDI question. Why not use RDI if you're doing IBM i compiling ?

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
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p. 952.486.6802
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message: 1
date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:56:29 -0400
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Mapping Shared IFS folders to Mac

I know it _should_ Scott. But it doesn't work.

I get the errors noted previously. It is very odd because it appears to partially work (i.e. it will seek authentication etc.) but then fails with a message indicating that the connection type is not accepted at all.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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