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[patrichek]

Hi,
I am a complete retard when it comes to Unix, so bear with me please Basically i know how to turn it on and log in and that's it!
I need to move a whole Unix disk to windows 2003 server. I've installed services for unix on the w2k3 server but i'm totally lost on what to do next.
Any help is appreciated

 

[Trevoke]

Well, what do you mean by 'move' it ?
Just move data from the UNIX partition to the Windows 2003 server's partition?
If that's the case, you only need to mess around a little with SAMBA(

http://www.samba.org)

and file-sharing..

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[patrichek]

hi,
i need to move the contents of an entire disk and also be able to access it from unix boxes.
thanks!

 

[Annihilannic]

Do "Services for Unix" on the W2K3 server allow you share directories using NFS? If so, find out how to do that, then you can mount that share on your Unix box and copy the files to the W2K3 server, and also use that method to later access these files from the Unix boxes.

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[patrichek]

hi,
ok i was able to access the files on the unix disk from my windows server from my network places, but i'm unable to mount the windows share from unix system. I've shared the NFS folder on the windows system then i went to unix and it tells me to input the computer name of the system i'm trying to access and from then it can't find my windows server?
any ideas?
thanks again!

 

[PHV]

Even with the IP address instead of the name ?

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[patrichek]

hi guys,
the IP address worked! thanks I also had to allow root access on the nfs share

 

[patrichek]

now from my unix system i'm unable to see any files stored on the windows server through the mount point? help again

 

[Annihilannic]

More information please... how did you mount it? Can you see it mounted in df -k or mount? Does it give you an error message or is it just empty... etc.

Annihilannic.

 

[patrichek]

hi, thanks for your response and i'll repeat that i'm a unix retard just so we are clear.

when i run df -k i can see it listed and shows that there are files there but when i try to access from my home directory , i open the folder and it comes up empty even though i've copied files from my winserver and saved them there.
sorry for such dumb questions!

 

[Annihilannic]

Are you doing this through some kind of GUI? What happens if you open a shell prompt and cd into the directory where you have mounted it and do an ls -l to list the files there? It would help if you copy and paste the output of df -k and the above commands into this thread if they are not too long.

Annihilannic.

 

[patrichek]

first i tried thru gui and ended up with an empty folder then i tried from unix shell and got access denied?

 

[Chacalinc]

are trying as root?

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[patrichek]

yes, i've tried as root and also as a normal user.