A/UX Networking

[Cory5412]

An interesting thought/project/idea has popped into my head recently. Since A/UX is a unix system, there is probably some kind of network authentication system, and the ability to mount remote folders for a "network home directory" setup.

Has anybody seen this done, read about it or done it themselves with A/UX 3? At some point I'd like to get a few A/UX boxes I think, to try it out.

I've done it with NT4, Server2003/XPPro, and Mac OS X 10.3/10.4, and it's my understanding that it can be done with Linux, *BSD, Solaris, et al. (Most of those I just haven't had the time to work with yet.)

 

[paws]

A/UX probably has NFS, most Unices does.

I'd also expect it to have AppleShare, being an Apple server.

 

[scott]

A/UX has NFS client and server capabilities... You could use autofs to automount the home directories through NFS, and YP (NIS) to handle user-authentication. I've done this under Solaris, but never tried it with A/UX. It should work though! [] ]'>

 

[macdownunder]

I'd also expect it to have AppleShare, being an Apple server.

"AppleShare Pro" was an add on product for A/UX, it did not come with it standard. But as mentioned NFS and FTP etc all work.

Regards,

Macdownunder

 

[foetoid]

You could probably do some sort of ass-backward install of Samba and get the results you desire when working with Wintel and OS X machines. AppleShare Pro may support home directories, but I don't remember. That was many years ago that I fiddled with that, and when I sold all of my A/UX stuff on eBay, I made the ridiculous mistake of not making copies before shipping it all off.

 

[Cory5412]

Well, I don't need my A/UX network to be compatible with networks of newer computers, so whatever comes with A/UX would be fine. NFS would be fine, I'd just have to learn how to do it in A/UX, not too difficult if there is online documentation.

I'd eventually like to do NIS/YP or whatever's available on modern Solaris and Linux too, that one'll be easier since I can do that in virtual machines on the iMac and/or ThinkPad.

 

[paws]

I think NIS is being/has been phased out in favour of the LDAP directory services that Apple are also using as per 10.4.

 

[Cory5412]

Yeah, APple even completely removed NetInfo in 10.5, so a modern Solaris/Linux install would almost certainly use LDAP, although I did notice that in Solaris 10, NIS and NIS+ are available.

 

[porter]

You could probably do some sort of ass-backward install of Samba and get the results you desire when working with Wintel and OS X machines.

Given that OSX is UNIX based, NFS would be more appropriate for that.

Seems a shame to burden a little A/UX box with samba.