[SUMMARY] Transferring directories from OpenVMS to DUNIX

From: Don Becker <becker_at_panther.adelphi.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:58:17 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks to (in no particular order): Brian Leverson
                                    Gyula Szokoly
                                    Penny Champine
                                    Allan Simeone
                                    Serge Munhoven

A number of things needed to be done to properly configure the NFS server
on the VMS box: I needed to create a proxy for the unix box, with UID and
GID of -2, needed to map the filesystems under UCX (which I'd done), and
needed to export them (which I hadn't done). All is well after much
tweaking.

Other options which I didn't explore or exploit fully were: install
vbackup on the Unix box, install xdir on the Unix box (which I ended up
doing anyway), and install Multinet for VMS as a TCP/IP stack.

A summary of responses is included below.

--Don

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Don,

Get hold of the "OpenVMS & DEC OSF/1 Interoperability Tools" CD, dated
September 1994, part no. AG-QBX6A-XE. A program named 'vbackup' allows
restoration of VMS savesets to Unix.

-- 
Brian Leverson, Systems Manager
University of Washington                e-mail: brian_at_aa.washington.edu
Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics    phone:  (206)543-6736
Box 352400                              FAX:    (206)543-0217
Seattle, WA  98195-2400
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From: Gyula Szokoly <szgyula_at_tarkus.pha.jhu.edu>
To: Don Becker <becker_at_panther.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: Transferring directories from OpenVMS to DUNIX
Hi,
> 1.) tar the directories
> 2.) NFS mount the directories and copy
> 3.) Use xdir
> 4.) Use rcp (Multinet only)
5.) Use backup and the VMS like utilities that came with OSF 3.0 from
Boston whatever to read the backup file. There is (free) VMS backup,
which does not work properly either.
1.) I could not find a working tar either.
2.) I could get NFS sort of working but got the same problems that I got
    with tar.
3.) I'm not aware of this product.
4.) I was/am running UCX< too. AFAIK the UCX developers left Dec and
    UCX was not really improved.
Gyula
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From: Penny Champine <p.a.champine_at_larc.nasa.gov>
To: Don Becker <becker_at_panther.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: Transferring directories from OpenVMS to DUNIX
Don,
I've used multinet's nfsmount to mount unix files systems on the VMS. The
nfs software should be bundled in with the newest version of multinet.
It's been a few years ago and I was mounting it on a sun.  I had to export
the file system out to the VMS hostname and used the mulitnet command on
the vms system:
 $nfsmount  your.unix.box::"/filesystem"  VMSmountpoint
you should be able to set def VMSmountpoint:[000000]
Penny
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From: "SIMEONE, Allan J." <Allan.SIMEONE_at_rp-rorer.com>
To: 'Don Becker' <becker_at_panther.adelphi.edu>
Subject: RE: Transferring directories from OpenVMS to DUNIX
Hi,
On the vms side, you need to set up a map, an export and a proxy.
If you have not gotten that far, let me know and I will send you some
instructions on it.
The easiest way to find out why there is an authentication problem is to
do a repl/ena on the vms system.  Then go on the unix system and do your
mount -t nfs command.  the authentication error should come up on your vms
system window and show you what the problem is.  I had this problem and I
had to set up a proxy for a user id and group id of -2 (negative 2). 
don't know why , but it worked and that was all I cared about. 
Send me mail if you need more info.
Allan
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From: Serge MUNHOVEN <munhoven_at_mema.ucl.ac.be>
To: Don Becker <becker_at_panther.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: Transferring directories from OpenVMS to DUNIX
Sorry, I've not been in the OpenVMS business for 1 year now. But I managed
to get UCX/NFS (3.0 I think, under 6.2) to work with DU 3.2C in both
directions.
Else you could consider using ZIP, though there may be problems with some
files (ascii vs binary, OpenVMS file attributes, SSSIGGHHH).
Hope this helps,
   - Serge
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