[Orca-users] Orca and Windows

[David Michaels]

rot wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know. In fact, i need to know if its possible to do CP in a Windoze
>enviroment using Orca, RDD, ? . (Cygwin? Perftool?)
>
>And if exist a FAQ or somenting like that.... 
>


CP (copy, I assume you mean) would require that you have either:
   
    (1)  Windows drive with perfmon info in it mounted on a Unix box.  
This would require Samba (free) or similar functionality on the Unix 
machine.  Not all OS's can /mount/ a Windows drive, even with these 
tools - some only have an ftp-like interface, in which case, CP won't 
help you.  I'm not sure how to get a Windows drive /mounted/ on a 
Solaris OS, but there may be a way.
    (2)  Unix drive where perfmon goes to mounted on the Windows box.  
This would require an NFS client on the Windows box.  Microsoft has a 
(now free) application called SFU (Services For Unix) that will provide 
you with the tools you need.  SFU also includes a service that can share 
Windows drives over NFS, allowing a Unix machine to mount them using 
native NFS client tools.  The latest rev is SFU 3.5.  
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp  Note that any NFS 
solution on Windows can result in fairly laggy performance across that 
link if you use a URI (\\machinename\hostname kind of reference), 
because of the inner guts of Microsoft's service order list.


If you have Cygwin on the Windows box, you can get/install 'expect' 
(might already be there, even), which is a neat scripting language used 
for dealing with interaction-based programs like FTP.  I'm sure there 
are tons of examples out there on the web somewhere.  You might also be 
able to use expect on the Unix side as a front-end to Samba, or even FTP 
(if there's an FTP server on the Windows side) to periodically fetch the 
files across.  Here's a homepage:  http://expect.nist.gov/

Does this help?

--Dragon