AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM.
Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC (POWER) version 7 enables a unique performance advantage for AIX OS.
POWER7 features new capabilities using multiple cores and multiple CPU threads, creating a pool of virtual CPUs.
AIX 7 includes a new built-in clustering capability called Cluster Aware
AIX POWER7 systems include the Active Memory Expansion feature.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

AIX SAMBA CONFIGURATION

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING SAMBA

DOWNLOAD SAMBA PACKAGE

Obtain samba from http://pware.hvcc.edu/download/aix53-64/
pware53-64.base.5.3.0.0.bff.gz pware53-64.krb5.1.7.1.0.bff.gz pware53-64.openldap.2.4.21.0.bff.gz pware53-64.readline.6.1.0.0.bff.gz

pware53-64.cyrus-sasl.2.1.23.0.bff.gz pware53-64.libiconv.1.13.1.0.bff.gz pware53-64.openssl.0.9.8.13.bff.gz pware53-64.samba.3.5.3.0.bff

pware53-64.gettext.0.17.0.0.bff.gz pware53-64.ncurses.5.7.0.1.bff.gz pware53-64.popt.1.10.4.0.bff.gz

INSTALLING SAMBA
Unzip package

# gunzip *

gunzip: pware53-64.samba.3.5.3.0.bff: unknown suffix -- ignored

Create table of contents

# inutoc .
Install Packages

installp -a -c -g -X -Y -d $(pwd) pware53-64.samba
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Installation Summary

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Name Level Part Event Result

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pware53-64.zlib.rte 1.2.3.0 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.bdb.rte 4.7.25.4 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.openssl.rte 0.9.8.13 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.krb5.rte 1.7.1.0 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.cyrus-sasl.rte 2.1.23.0 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.openldap.rte 2.4.21.0 USR APPLY SUCCESS

pware53-64.samba.rte 3.5.3.0 USR APPLY SUCCESS

 
CONFIGURE BASIC SAMBA

 
# pwd

/opt/pware64/lib
# cat smb.conf

 
[global]

workgroup=mygroup

security=user

browseable=yes

[homes]

browseable=yes

read only=no

valid users=test1,test2,test3
START SAMBA DAEMONS

/opt/pware64/sbin/smbd -D

/opt/pware64/sbin/nmbd -D