__________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840
David Kreuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> 11/17/2005 12:34 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Using SAMBA / NFS for data interchange between Windows and Linux - any reservations? from an architecture perspective is ftp doing the same thing as nfs/samba? FTP is more of a come and get it - samba/nfs are here when you want it. Just a thought. David The difference is how you script your processes. Scripting FTP client-side is a bit more complex and you have to parse the output. OK, if you use Perl's Net::FTP or Java, then there is a nice wrapper around FTP to give you results. BTW, FTP is the only I know of submitting jobs to the z/OS partition. What I like about the copy / move approach is that it can be woven nicely into scripting. All file operations can be performed on SAMBA / NFS mounted files that would be much more complicated to do using FTP. The file / pipe paradigm works very naturally with scripts. And you don't have to embed account details once the files are mounted by root (Ok, good design does not, but I have seen a lot of crappy scripts with embedded user id and password!). Less clutter, more elegance, more reliable - that is how I see it. Ranga -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Ranga Nathan Sent: Thu 11/17/2005 1:33 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Using SAMBA / NFS for data interchange between Windows and Linux - any reservations? I am proposing an architecture that will do away with myriad FTPs within our network and replace it with a simple LAN based file sharing using SAMBA / NFS / NAS. The FTPs have been a little flaky and processes did not always check success / failure of FTP. I am hoping that LAN based file sharing will eliminate these issues. There are no more than 10 servers at this time involved in this file sharing. When succcessful, we could extend it across the board to all our system that interchange data. What I am not sure if how SAMBA / NFS perform under heavy load? Are there any gotchas? I would also like to bring in SMB file sytem from z/OS. For this to happen, I need to demonstrate success with SAMBA. BTW, I have used SAMBA for a number of years without any issues, other than Windows highjacking the execute bit for archive turning text files into executables! But this will be the first time I will be trying it in corporate production, mission-critical environment. __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
