Samba has been working quite well on aix for quite some time, and allows aix to integrate into a windows domain with ads. Michael felts aixtools open source toolbox for aix. Using gnupg, simply download the samba source distribution, the tarball. They are intended to replace 100%compatible the ibm tm aix toolbox for linux applications. Install the cifs software on the aix server this is part of aix itself.
I hate to rain on your parade but theres no way youre going to be able to do this without the root account. To test this capability, install windows terminal server in a windows. I have checked many aix forums but have not been able to find a precompiled version of samba 4 for aix 7. Unfortunately this aix machine does not have gcc, wget, yum installed so it would be difficult to compile from source. How to configure samba to use smbv2 and disable smbv1 on.
Bulls updated version of the aix toolbox for linux applications. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. It can be run on a unixlike platform like aix, bsd unix, linux, ibm 390 and openvms. Samba is an open source, free software suite that provides seamless file and print services between windows clients and unixlike platforms. Now that i tried to grab a samba tar file which is successfully installed but, does not show when i run lssrc a grep smbd why is that and ps aef does not display the service too. A mksysb is commonly written to a cd or dvd, to tape, or across the network.
I was looking at a samba install but i may not have what i need to do that. Bull freeware has a lot of rpm based aix packages, also samba for aix 6. Setting up a server the samba suite hides in the bos. As a reminder, samba is a set of programs that allows clients to access server file systems and printers using the common. Samba is an opensource implementation of the smb or cifs protocol, which allows pccompatible machines especially windows oese to share files, printers, and other information with linux and viceversa. Mar 25, 2014 i am trying to setup a share between aix 5. These packages are provided asis, meaning i support them as much as i can bug reports and fixes are always very much welcome please also check. Here you can download all the packages that bullatos has compiled for different versions of aix. Create a mountpoint on the aix machine to mount the windows share on, e. Nothing has to be installed on windows workstationsservers. This entry was posted in aix administration and tagged aix advance config, aix samba installation and configuration, configuring samba in aix, how to configure samba in aix, installing samba in aix on january 17, 2011 by learnitfromshiva.
As ibm is the manufacturer of your os you have to trust them anyways. It seems that this was not installed using rpm as i don. A useful writeup for aix can be found here the central configuration file is nf. Samba aix starting and stopping samba from command line. Can somebody let me what i have to do on aix for this to happen. Mounting a windows share on an aix system there is a way to mount a share from a windows system as an nfs filesystem in aix. It can be a complete domain member server, and authentication can be performed by the dcs in a windows ad domain or other kerberosldap servers. You can either compile samba yourself or install precompiled samba packages from third party vendors. Collection of open source and gnu software packages built for aix 5. I am not familiar with samba, i tried running the first steps and i am already stomped. Aix cifs client support for smbv2 and higher solutions.
I downloaded a set of packages for samba from ibms ftp site which throws a lot of dependencies when tried to install it on a aix 5. When a domain is selected and the user name and password are input from the windows client, the request for authentication goes to the samba server. Unix health check mounting a windows share on an aix system. In order to work properly, it needs some configuration.
Old releases are available in the samba archives the samba distribution gpg public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. Installing samba on a unix system downloading the samba distribution if you want to get started quickly, the cdrom packaged with this book contains both the sources and binaries of samba that were available as this book went to print. Go to ibms linux toolbox for aix and download the two three if you need the client too packages in rpm format you will find there. Aix may not be able to write their data direectly on the samba sahre of a different server, otherwise just setup samba on a proper os for samba and access it form the aix server and the clients via smb samba is a good solution. The samba distribution gpg public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. What commands can be used to install the different. Mar 27, 2020 installation and configuration of samba on aix 5. Among others, the following features are supported. Aix open source packages main aix open source packages. Jan 17, 2011 this entry was posted in aix administration and tagged aix advance config, aix samba installation and configuration, configuring samba in aix, how to configure samba in aix, installing samba in aix on january 17, 2011 by learnitfromshiva. I am truly lucky to have found sharon garratt, a wonderful partner to share my passions for food, technology, photography and travel with.
Ive try smb start on i know its for linux but it does not recognized by aix thx. Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of pcrelated machines share files, printers, and other information such as lists of available files and printers. I can get around in aix and do a few things but not to many advanced functions. When configured, this server software allows the host machine to share files and printers and make. Much easier than compiling samba on aix on your own is using prebuilt binary packages from third party vendors.
How to install upgrade samba on aix solutions experts. The cd is a mirror image of the files and directories on the samba download server. It comes as an installp bff source and can thus be installedupgraded via smitty install just like any aix package e. Samba binaries for aix are available in the aix 61d expansion pack. Download onaccess antivirus for samba on aix for free. I will be using rsync to copy a filesystem from my aix machine to another unix machine, so it needs to be compatible with other versions of rsync. Using gnupg, simply download the samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and.
The open source packages for aix will help compiling and packaging linux applications on aix systems, developing new applications for aix using the gnu environment, and running popular software provided in linux distributions such as. Onaccess antivirus detection using samba vfs on ibm aix using sophos antivirus libraries. Using gnupg, simply download the samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and the samba distribution public key. My approach is to try to reinstall a newer samba and i have found the latest 3. Samba general aix starting and stopping samba from. On this website you find aix tm open source packages which i have compiled, tested as much as i can and packaged on aix5l v5. My goal is, on boot up i want to have samba started automatically. If you encounter an error message that sambacommon cant be installed because it is missing libwbclient. Aix performance is improved for 100 gb network adapters. If you found this useful, heres more on the same topics in our blog. This is the version that all production samba servers should be running for all current bugfixes. New to aix need help installingupgrading samba on aix 7. Share between aix and windows ibm hardware spiceworks. The own samba team has already worked several times on the realization of individual customer projects with samba for aix as well as the porting of samba software for different unix distributions.
Share an aix filesystem with nfs to windows 2008r2 sap. I think i need the installer disks but i can not find them. My issue is, i have no idea how to install the package noob to aixunix and id like to do this as clean as possible. Samba uses the tcpip protocol that is installed in the host server. If you send a mksysb to an image file and leave it as such, though you can restore files from it, it will not be bootable, thus you cannot recover your system.
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