SAMBA & WINDOWS 1

[PrgrmsAll]

Is anyone familiar with Samba sofware? If so, do you know if it has the capabilities of running a Windows executable from within a HPUX Job?

 

[MikeLacey]

Samba does not do this. Have a look at

http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/samba.html

for an explanation of what samba does.

Use rexec to run a windows executable from another machine (HPUX, AIX, Windows, whatever) You probably won't be able to run anything that requires user input or has a GUI.

Mike

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[PrgrmsAll]

Thanks Mike. Do you know of anywhere that I can find/see some syntax examples of where this has been done successfully?

 

[MikeLacey]

I did it in my last job, called a database (SQL/Server) update job from an HPUX box. I've also called windows executables from AIX and Solaris boxes.

Open a cmd window on XP and type 'rexec', that explains a litte as well.

The limitations, as far as I know them, are:

[li]The windows box has be running the REXEC service[/li]
[li]You can only call console progams, text based programs, on the windows box and they must be able to run without user intervention[/li]
[li]You have to get the .rhosts file entries correct (and don't ask me how to do that because I have to look it up every time )[/li]

Mike

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