AIX-Samba-Windows

Hi all.
There is an issue which I couldn't decide yet. So I need your ideas.
I've an AIX 4.6C R/3 Server which has Samba configured.
The files needed to be exported to Windows File Server with
fileserver\directory notation. I can acces from Windows to AIX but vice versa is not available. We have used NFS but this makes us to change the hardcoded ABAP programs or variant for background jobs.
Is there any suggestion to overcome this situation?
Thanks in advance.
Fatih ERTEN

Part of the Samba suite is the smbclient executable.
This SMB client can be used to access Windows shares from AIX.
see "man smbclient" for details.

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up, will be someone be kind enough to help me resolve my problem please? ...
Last edited by Mazh (2011-05-26 22:47:19)

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Last edited by Soukyuu (2014-06-10 20:55:21)

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I have made the thread bellow thinking i solve my problem giving access on FTMG...but unfortunately nope...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107350
My Situation:
3 Servers on Windows 2008 Domain (Example: 192.168.1.1 / 2 / 3)
1.1 - DC
1.2 - Exchange
1.3 - ISA FTMG (Gateway to all servers)
1 Arch Server for Backup (Samba Share PUBLIC) - 192.168.1.4
And my problem is annoying at least, i go to one of my windows 2008 servers and push on explorer \\192.168.1.4\Backup and sometimes fully work without any problem... and another times (let's say 5 minutes after i push again) and:
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or
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BUT FROM THIS WINDOWS 2008 SERVER IT PINGS 192.168.1.4
AND
TRACERT GO DIRECTLY TO 192.168.1.4
And if i try and try eventually it will work again.....can't damn understand what's going on with this.....
On ISA I gave FULL ACCESS to my servers to go where the hell they want and even so......
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Sniff

KimTjik wrote:
I'm sorry I didn't know that this wasn't covered in the Wiki. When I get some time I'll probably add something about. No neither of those links are correct. You already have one DC, a native Windows server, and the second one isn't necessary (you don't need to join the whole Linux workstation to the domain, just the Samba service; the Samba service will with hostname be recognized as a stand-alone server).
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OK, sorry for the delay in my answer but i was traveling and couldn't test the above in the production environment.
I have add the backup server to the domain successfully but that was not the problem.
Now i have full details and maybe you could give your opinion:
FTMG (Forefront Threat Management Gateway)
SWITCH LAYER 3
SERVER BACKUP----------------------SERVERDC---------------------------SERVEREXCHANGE
THE PROBLEM is that if the DC have a share or exchange, everything works ok \\dc or \\exchange, but if you try to connect to the share archserver the connection drop quite often \\archserver
WHY? Because after some trace in FTMG, the microsoft firewall consider that the archserver is doing spoofing, yes is on the same network as all servers, same domain as above help, trusted...etc.
SOLUTION? First i give permissions on the firewall to the archserver (ALLOW ALL /PROTOCOLS ETC), but even so the FTMG was intercepting all the requests to the archserver and still consider him spoofing...odd enough no??!! By the way the FTMG Server control all network, is the gateway to all servers and switching.
Are you thinking to change the gateway to archserver or just don't put any....yep same result, FTMG catch archserver still.
I gave up and come with my actual solution (VLAN or BACKUP NETWORK), all servers with a extra ethernet card dedicated to the backup network or vlan just to backup without the firewall going there to trace anything.
And that's it....
But my question to you all is, everytime that we have a linux server (share) together with FTMG in same network do you have the same result, it seems to me like FTMG have something like: IT'S LINUX / GET BLOCKED.
Thanks for your help and patience regarding my answer.
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