Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!164.67.42.145!awabi.library.ucla.edu!132.239.254.208!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!info-vax From: "Armistead, Jason" Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Samba for VMS 1.9.17p4 released! Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:43:00 -0500 Organization: Info-Vax<==>Comp.Os.Vms Gateway X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List Lines: 95 Hi Eckart Actually, I got the package about 13 hours ago from the Samba main site in Australia, after I found that your site gave me "file not found on the server" messages from our web proxy. It looks good, and I am already using SMBCLIENT to send print jobs to NT server (this is one advantage you don't list in the README.VMS list - it's worth a mention). Sure, it's not as flash as normal VMS printing in terms of parameters etc, but it does work without some of the spurious stuff that Pathworks Print Services (as in Pathworks 32 / V7 client + VMS host software). Pathworks Print suffers from problems with adding a FF (form feed) at the front of every file printed, even when there is nothing in the queue characteristics to do that i.e. no /DEFAULT=FEED or /SEPARATE=RESET=xxx modules. Now, if we could just turn it (SMBCLIENT printing part) into a LANMANSMB true VMS symbiont, and include all the VMS-isms of the PRINT command qualifiers that would be the ultimate in connectivity I guess with EXECSYM that might be already be possible in some sort of kludged manner. As an "enhancement request" for the VMS version , can the settings for the created "CONF.H" file be modified (my site specific one is below) so that it uses a separate logical for cluster-node-specific data e.g. the LOG directories ? In this case I've used SAMBA_ROOT_NODE as the logical, since, in essence, on a clustered system, you want to have the same binaries, but different directories for logs, configurations etc. We have two SCSI-clustered Alphas, and so want as much commonality as possible, without having to duplicate the binaries as well or getting file access violations because each node is trying to write to, for example, the same log or lock file. This makes cluster fail-over easier too - just point the client to the cluster alias rather than one machine. On a secondary note, you'd have to modify the INSTALL.COM procedure too. /* #define SMBLOGFILE "/samba_root/var/log.smb" */ #define SMBLOGFILE "/samba_root_node/var/log.smb" /* #define NMBLOGFILE "/samba_root/var/log.nmb" */ #define NMBLOGFILE "/samba_root_node/var/log.nmb" /* #define CONFIGFILE "/samba_root/lib/smb.conf" */ #define CONFIGFILE "/samba_root_node/lib/smb.conf" #define LMHOSTSFILE "/samba_root/lib/lmhosts" /* #define LOCKDIR "/samba_root/var/locks" */ #define LOCKDIR "/samba_root_node/var/locks" #define SMBRUN "smbrun" Finally, when using CIDR IP addresses (subnets not ending on the byte boundary e.g. 255.255.252.0) Samba gets the broadcast address wrong. e.g. for network 153.14.4.0 it chooses 153.14.255.255 rather than 153.14.7.255 for the broadcast address. Perhaps a logical which can be defined to take care of this (SAMBA_SUBNET_MASK) and some #ifdef VMS code included. This is the main reason why I discovered I needed separate configs and hence the new SAMBA_ROOT_NODE logical for each of our machines (still for other things such as logs and locks it's needed anyhow, so it won't go away) Regards Jason "Another Happy Samba customer" >---------- >From: Eckart Meyer[SMTP:meyer@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de] >Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 1997 12:55 >To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com >Subject: Samba for VMS 1.9.17p4 released! > >Samba for VMS 1.9.17p4 has been released! > >No file growing problem any more. > >You may get the kits from any samba mirror (preferred) in bin-pkgs/vms >or from my ftp site > > ftp.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/vms/samba > >Eckart > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >For newest imformation on Samba for VMS see: >http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html. This page also >shows how to subscribe to the samba-vms mail list. >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Eckart Meyer Address: Schleinitzstr. 22 >Institute for Communications Technology 38092 Braunschweig >Technical University of Braunschweig >Germany > Phone: +49 531 391 2454 >E-Mail: meyer@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de FAX: +49 531 391 5192 >ICQ: 3745252 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >