-- ________________________________________________ Eduardo Bergasa Balda UNIVERSIDAD DE LA RIOJA Servicio Informático Sistemas y Comunicaciones C/Avenida de La Paz, 93 Tf:+34-41-299176 26004 Logroño - SPAIN Fx:+34-41-299180 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have UCX on the OpenVMS side, you could do it. I did it sometimes ago, so I can't remaind me the details. If you are facing to problems, I look around for my notes. Kind regards __________________________________________________ Felix Maurer Die Schweizerische Post Tel: +41-31-338 98 49 Informatik POST Fax: +41-31-338 98 80 Messaging Management Webergutstrasse 12 Mailto:maurerf_at_post.ch CH-3030 Bern http://www.post.ch __________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Fletcher [joe_at_meng.ucl.ac.uk] Hi, > A need has cropped up recently. We need to share a Digital UNIX directory > with a machine running OpenVMS. I heard cross-platform NFS can be done > between UNIx machines. How about UNIX and VMS? Are there any special > requirements that I need to do when exporting this directory? Are there any > special things that needs to be done by the VMS administrator? > > Thanks for any help. I will summarize. VMS systems can't mount nfs shares from unix systems. You can share a VMS directory out to a unix system via nfs though. Even if you do that you may find things don't behave quite as expected. Have your VMS admin walk you through the UCX docs assuming that is what you intend to use at the VMS end. Cheers. Joe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard, Roger [rleonard_at_cvty.com] We use MultiNet on the vms side and set up a logical with a "unix-like" name instead of the $whatever syntax. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon.Millard_at_barclays.co.uk I believe that you need to run a version of UCX (or whatever it is called today). This software provides TCP/IP services, including nfs on a OpenVMS platform. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Watson [phwatso_at_cooper-energy-services.com] The VMS administrator will need to have installed UCX for VMS software this gives the ability to nfs mount unix drives amongst other things. There are quite a few items to be set-up tcp/ip networking will be required to allow nfs mounting, and unix users will will have to be mapped to VMS users along with proxy access rights. -- Regards, Paul Watson MSc(M:MT)(Open) - CAD Systems Supervisor, Cooper Energy Services, Bootle, Liverpool, UK. http://www.cooperenergy.com - Internet http://coops.ces.com - Intranet ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi In the past we had a Vax/VMS system that exported disks using NFS. The software we ran was called Multinet and worked very well. We never imported disk from unix systems, only exported, because a special licence was required for that that was not bought. Philippe Gouffon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- PHILIPPE GOUFFON | Instituto de Fisica | INASMUCH as three quarters of the earth's Universidade de Sao Paulo | surface is water and only one fourth is land Caixa Postal 66318 | the good Lord's Intentions are very clear: 05389-970 Sao Paulo | Brazil | A man's time should be divided: | Tel: (55)(11)818-7045 | three fourths for sailing and one fourth for work. Fax: (55)(11)818-6832 | email: pgouffon_at_if.usp.br | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Otterson, Robert [Robert.Otterson_at_compaq.com] hello, You'll probably get a lot of answers; Can be done; on the VMS you will need SW (TCP/IP Services) also called UCX. I've been out of VMS for awhile; I do not know if that is built or standard in Post 7.0 VMS installs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Luciano Imamura [luciano.imamura_at_incor.usp.br] Hi, on OpenVMS there is a application named UCX, you can use this to export directories. Good luck, Luciano. ==================================================================== | Luciano Imamura | mailto:luciano_at_incor.usp.br | | Instituto do Coracao - HC-FMUSP | http://www.incor.usp.br | | Av.Dr.Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44 | phone : +55 11 3069-5549 | | 05403-000 Sao Paulo - Brazil | fax: +55 11 282-2354 | ==================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- pvhp_at_forte.com Yes this is possible. On DU you want to configure and run nfsd and be sure to export the filesystem/mountpoint so that other systems can see it. Since most NFS documentation has a unix bias toward it you may want to verify the export and mountability from another unix machine before moving to the VMS machine. See man mount e.g. On the VMS machine you need to configure and run the NFS client. The details of how to do that depend on which tcp/ip stack you are running: Digital tcp/ip services for OpenVMS (aka UCX), Multinet, Wollongong, Process are some of the most common ones (though recently there has been some consolidation with Process software buying up the others and handling tech support for UCX through a contract with digital). Under UCX the mount command is as follows: $ UCX MOUNT DNFS'p1': 'p2' 'p3' /HOST="''p4'"/PATH="''p5'" /NOADF/SYS where: * p1 is an integer representing the next logical nfs mount. Use: $ show devices d to determine what the next integer should be (it'll be '1' for your first mount) * p2 is the host * p3 is a disk volume logical name * p4 is the hostname (lower case if necessary) * p5 is a path in unix form (e.g. "/path/to/shared/directory"). * the /noadf/sys qualifiers are optional Under Multinet the mount command could be: $ MULTINET NFSMOUNT 'p2'::"''p5'" 'p3' /SOFT/TIMEOUT=300/PROCESSOR=UNIQUE/VOLUME='p3 For either tcp/ip stack you can run it interactively and then ask for help from the program, e.g.: $ ucx UCX> help mount or $ multinet MULTINET> help nfsmount Some things to beware of: NFS is unreliable and based on UDP packet exchange, it is OK for sharing where you may be skimming files and willing to re-read files, but for more reliable file transfer you'd do better with a tcp based protocol like ftp. In order to allow for the illusion of support for mixed case filenames such as on Unix, the vms nfs clients map uppercase names and punctuation to weird characters. It is best if you restrain your unix filenaming to: 39.39, no more than one period, all lowercase. If you are not so constrained be prepared for map renamings (e.g. FileName on Unix -> $F$ILE$N$AME. on VMS) Peter Prymmer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hank Lee <hank.lee_at_vta.org> UNIX Systems Administrator SAP Basis Administrator Santa Clara County Transit DistrictReceived on Mon Apr 26 1999 - 21:58:54 NZST
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