There is a way to mount a share from a windows system as an NFS filesystem in AIX:
- Install the CIFS software on the AIX server (this is part of AIX itself: bos.cifs_fs).
- Create a folder on the windows machine, e.g. D:\share.
- Create a local user, e.g. "share" (user IDs from Active Directory can not be used): Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Advanced tab -> Advanced button -> Select Users -> Right click in right window and select "New User" -> Enter User-name, password twice, deselect "User must change password at next logon" and click on create and close and ok.
- Make sure the folder on the D: drive (in this case "share") is shared and give the share a name (we'll use "share" again as name in this example) and give "full control" permissions to "Everyone".
- Create a mountpoint on the AIX machine to mount the windows share on, e.g. /mnt/share.
- Type on the AIX server as user root:
# mount -v cifs -n hostname/share/password -o uid=201,fmode=750 /share /mnt/share
- You're done!
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