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I hope I can do a good job of describing my issue. I am still a little confused myself.

I am currently switching my DataStage Windows 8.01 instance to Linux 64bit 8.7 version of DataStage.

I have a number of server jobs that use a sequential stage to create a file on a Windows UNC share. For example, I have \\gscnas03\gsc-dept3$\file.txt in the File name box of the sequential file stage.

How can I access this share from Linux?

A couple of options I have thought about already that are not preferable are:

1. FTP the file instead, or
2. Use Samba software (already installed on the Linux server) to create permanent mounts to the shares. I was told by my Linux team that this is not a good idea as this would create dependencies on my server to all of these shares.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

The way I have done is establish the ssh first between your Linux and Windows boxes; then use the SFTP stage to get your files. No FTP or Samba is allowed due to the security reasons.