How to install NFS, VPN?

When I installed eCS 2.0 RC3, icons showed that VPN was installed and, I 
think, NFS. A week later RC4 came out, so I wound up reinstalling. I must 
not have selected these two features on the installation attempt which 
succeeded, so I've tried to add them later.

Selective install for networking, whether I have enabled just tcp/ip and 
these two or have enabled a complete networking reinstall, fails to put 
the features on the system. eCSMT offers an option to install them which 
even, for an instant, puts an icon on the screen before taking it away and 
announcing a failure.

Will anything short of obliterating my boot drive get NFS and VPN in place?

Craig Colby wrote:
> When I installed eCS 2.0 RC3, icons showed that VPN was installed and, I 
> think, NFS. A week later RC4 came out, so I wound up reinstalling. I 
> must not have selected these two features on the installation attempt 
> which succeeded, so I've tried to add them later.
> 
> Selective install for networking, whether I have enabled just tcp/ip and 
> these two or have enabled a complete networking reinstall, fails to put 
> the features on the system. eCSMT offers an option to install them which 
> even, for an instant, puts an icon on the screen before taking it away 
> and announcing a failure.
> 
> Will anything short of obliterating my boot drive get NFS and VPN in
place?

Two things.

The VPN support option that you can select will only work with an AIX 
server with a special VPN extension from IBM. Other then that its not 
useable. There are some drivers in the OS/2 directory but I can advise 
you not to realy use these.

It does not work with NAT, it does not have key rotation and the 
encryption is weak. However its supplied this install option because its 
also in the MCP.

The NFS support that is there we put in. But to be quite honest the NFS 
support is not that good. Your milage may vary with it.
Your better of usining netdrive. It seems IBM has tested it with AIX.
However we ran a test with an NFS server running debian. Doing a mount a 
double click on the WPS drive object was enough to generate a kernel trap.

You can install these components by running \ecs\bin\network.exe

Best regards

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:58:10 UTC, Roderick Klein <rwklein@xs4all.nl> 
wrote:

> The NFS support that is there we put in. But to be quite honest the NFS 
> support is not that good. Your milage may vary with it.
> Your better of usining netdrive. It seems IBM has tested it with AIX.
> However we ran a test with an NFS server running debian. Doing a mount a 
> double click on the WPS drive object was enough to generate a kernel trap.

Is not the problem with NFS that it works fine as long as there are no
symlinks the other end - Then it traps.

-- 
Regards
Dave Saville

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:58:10 UTC, Roderick Klein <rwklein@xs4all.nl> 
wrote:

> Craig Colby wrote:
> > When I installed eCS 2.0 RC3, icons showed that VPN was installed and,
I 
> > think, NFS. A week later RC4 came out, so I wound up reinstalling. I 
> > must not have selected these two features on the installation attempt

> > which succeeded, so I've tried to add them later.
> > 
> > Selective install for networking, whether I have enabled just tcp/ip
and 
> > these two or have enabled a complete networking reinstall, fails to
put 
> > the features on the system. eCSMT offers an option to install them
which 
> > even, for an instant, puts an icon on the screen before taking it away

> > and announcing a failure.
> > 
> > Will anything short of obliterating my boot drive get NFS and VPN in
place?
> 
> Two things.
> 
> The VPN support option that you can select will only work with an AIX 
> server with a special VPN extension from IBM. Other then that its not 
> useable. 


OpenVPN works fine here, although a bit slow. Give it a try:

http://www.ecomstation.it/ecsoft2/prog.php?progid=1354

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Ciao