Can a NAS drive be used on AIX 5.3?

The http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkstation-live-ls-chl/ only supports SMB which you could also use with your AIX.

http://pware.hvcc.edu/AIX-Samba.pdf

Do you have the Buffalo LinkStation LS-CL NAS already configured for Samba access by windows systems? And now you need to make those resources also available to the AIX system?

Arnold,

Thanks for the reply, I do not have Samba configured anywhere in the system and have never configured Samba.  I will check the links you provided and get back to you if I have any problems.

Dan

woolmilkproc,

Thanks for the reply, I checked the system with lslpp -L there are no bos.cifs packages installed.
Any idea which CD in AIX 5.3 has the pacakages?
I will not have access to that system until next week to try this but it sounds exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks,
Dan

Hi,

just insert the first CD and take care to have the whole AIX 5.3 base level installation CD set at hand. Don't mount the CD!

Select your CD/DVD drive when asked by "smitty install_all", select both filesets above with <F7> after having hit <F4> at " SOFTWARE to install".

Each CD volume contains the full table of contents, and you will be asked to insert the right CD volume once installation has begun.
I could find out the actual volume number, but not before tomorrow, sorry.

Important note: You must reboot the machine once the software installation is complete! Some years ago I tried to mount a share without rebooting and had to see my system crash!

wmp

woolmiklporc,

Thanks for the reply, I will  start with the first CD.  No need for you find the actual volume number.

I'll let you know the results following the installation.

Thanks again,
Dan

woolmilkporc,

Adding the bos.cifs to AIX 5.3 worked perfectly.

It is the exact solution I was looking for.

Thanks for your help,
Dan

You're always welcome!

Thx for the points!

Cheers

wmp