[Info-vax] Does anyone know how to connect a NAS system to OVMS??

[Michael Austin]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Jan 29, 9:00 pm, Michael Austin <maus... at firstdbasource.com> wrote:
>> Ed Wilts wrote:
>>> On Jan 29, 6:56 pm, Len Whitwer <l... at psds.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jan 29, 3:11 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
>>>> Does pathworks/advanced server support NAS???
>>> No.  Pathworks & Advanced Server are SMB *servers*.  They have no
>>> *client* functionality.
>>>    .../Ed
>> Actually it depends on which stack and which version... TCPIP Services
>> 5.x has an NFS client and server. And at one time Advanced Server had a
>> client as well as server (used it many years ago) - but also don't
>> remember what it was called. (smbclient??) I know that SAMBA has this
>> (used it before as well...)
> 
> smbclient exists for some versions of Samba - Linux yes, Solaris, no.
> Samba doesn't exist for OpenVMS 7.3

not sure if you meant to put a period after 7.3, but if you did... I am 
running 7.3-2 and SAMBA and

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SAMBA.BIN.ALPHA]
SMBCLIENT.EXE;1

and have connected/read/written data to a "windows share" and it may 
have been this utility I used rather than anything from AdvServer.  It 
WAS a long time ago (10+years)...


> Advanced Server, to the best of my recollection, has never provided
> for an SMB client for VMS.  Please don't confuse Advanced Server with
> TCP/IP Services - it does not depend on which stack or version.  No
> version has provided client functionality (hence the name Advanced
> *SERVER*).

Stack/version was in reference to NFS not smb.  TCPIP Services has NFS 
client AND  Server.

> 
> Using the NFS client on VMS may possibly also give you some grief with
> the NAS device.  Certainly, not all products that claim to be NAS do
> NFS, and even if it does NFS, prepare yourself with some fun with UID/
> GID mappings.  You may or may not (and likely not) have ACL support.
> I
> 

Yes they are a pain, but they are also a pain in *N{U,I}X.

> The original poster never said what brand of NAS or exactly what level
> of functionality he wanted.  Without hacks (such as Glenn Everharts's
> pseudo-disk driver) there's no way it's just going to look like
> another VMS disk drive.

I have connected my VMS box to the Netgear 1-4TB NAS appliance via NFS. 
Really nice.

> 
>    .../Ed (managing VMS systems since the blue wall)

Michael Austin
Field Service for DEC 84-90, Field Software Support - Databases - 90-94 
(then sold to Oracle) and a WHOLE BUNCH of stuff since.