How to select network protocol

This is all black magic to me, so if my problem statement doesn't make sense
please try to set me straight...

We have a 3rd party NFS client (Hummingbird NFS Maestro) installed on our
Windows XP Pro computers. On the other end of the wire is a Sun box running
Samba. So my Windows box can talk both SMB and NFS, as can the Sun box.

Is there some way that I can force Windows to use one protocol rather than
the other? The specific problem that we have is that the Sun box is hosting
ClearCase, and nasty things happen when you try to talk to ClearCase using
SMB, so we want to force the Windows box to use NFS. If we turn off Samba
on the Sun box (which we can't do on the production server) then Windows and
ClearCase are perfectly happy with one another. But as soon as we turn on
Samba then we start seeing the ClearCase problems.

(I guess the flip side of this question would be better addressed to
Rational/IBM or a Sun newsgroup: Is there some way to convince ClearCase on
the Sun server to favor NFS over Samba?)

TIA - Bob

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Bob Altman <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> This is all black magic to me, so if my problem statement doesn't
> make sense please try to set me straight...
>
> We have a 3rd party NFS client (Hummingbird NFS Maestro) installed on
> our Windows XP Pro computers. On the other end of the wire is a Sun
> box running Samba. So my Windows box can talk both SMB and NFS, as
> can the Sun box.
> Is there some way that I can force Windows to use one protocol rather
> than the other? The specific problem that we have is that the Sun
> box is hosting ClearCase, and nasty things happen when you try to
> talk to ClearCase using SMB, so we want to force the Windows box to
> use NFS. If we turn off Samba on the Sun box (which we can't do on
> the production server) then Windows and ClearCase are perfectly happy
> with one another. But as soon as we turn on Samba then we start
> seeing the ClearCase problems.
> (I guess the flip side of this question would be better addressed to
> Rational/IBM or a Sun newsgroup: Is there some way to convince
> ClearCase on the Sun server to favor NFS over Samba?)
>
> TIA - Bob

Based on your comment, I would think this is an app setting, and not
necessarily trying to default the whole machine's network stack to use one
over the other. I know in Apple OSx (Bind) we must stipulate whether to use
SMB.

I would ask in the Sun group to see what those folks may have to say.


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Regards,
Ace

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In news:%(E-Mail Removed),
Ace Fekay [MVP] <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Based on your comment, I would think this is an app setting, and not
> necessarily trying to default the whole machine's network stack to
> use one over the other. I know in Apple OSx (Bind) we must stipulate
> whether to use SMB.
>
> I would ask in the Sun group to see what those folks may have to say.

Forgot to mention, you can play around with the protocol bindings in Windows
by going to Network COnnections, Advanced Menu, then choose Advanced.

Ace