On Mon, July 11, 2011 11:39, Charles Finley wrote:
> Hmm, I have had SAMBA working here for several years.  It seems to
> work pretty well. Come to think of it, there were some issues in
> getting it configured correctly though in the beginning.
>

Yes, I went down that road a long time ago for a client and do not
relish having to do it again for myself.  Of, this time I also would
need to configure the Linux end as well.

> Now at least you have a Plan B. It sounds like if the CurlFTPfs
> trying does not work out (or if you have to modify source code
> to get it going), you could use a combination of SAMBA on the
> HP 3000, and FTP site stream to do what you'd like to do. With
> the limited understanding of what you are trying to accomplish
> that I have so far, that would be my first choice I think.
>

In a nutshell we are transitioning off the HP3000.  Our edi program
with the CA Federal government updates our new system using
PostgreSQl and Ruby on Rails on a Linux host.  The billing system
remains on the HP3000 for now.  This is a Cognos Powerhouse
application.  During the cross-over period we wish to transmit a
transaction file to the HP3000 via ftp and stream a job to update
the billing data thereon.  That part works.

What I am now attempting to accomplish is make the entire process
more error tolerant.  That is why I want to mount the ftp directory
locally so that I can monitor the job output without having to
repetitively run a monitor script that opens an  ftp session and
transfers asynchronous semaphore files.

> Do I understand correctly that there is no requirement to run
> things initiated on the HP 3000 executing a program on the
> Centos computer?
>

That is correct.


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