Article 165177 of comp.os.vms:
system PRIVILEGED account wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody, i have the following (simple if you are a wizard) problem:
> 
> some time ago i dowloaded the porting of Samba over VMS and tried to install it
> over an Alphastation 200 4/166 with Open VMS 7.0 so to be able to use it with a
> PC 486 with Windows 3.11.
> Unfortunately nothing works so i need your help because all my colleagues or
> neither know about Samba or use it with Unix..
> My main problem is the interaction with the MS client since under File Manager
> if select Connect Network Units i see the VMS server but its name is truncated
> since i see \\gammalinguistic whreas the right name is gammalinguistica and i
> did not succeed in finding a place where i could specify it in smb.conf.
> Moreover when i boot the workstation and check ucx services i always find smbd
> disabled so that i have to enable it by hand.

	i have noticed same problem but that you can easily solve
	by enabling smbd in your systartup_vms.com procudure:

		...
	$@sys$startup:samba_startup
	$ucx enable service smbd
		...

> Last but not least in smb.conf i defined as a workgroup Lablin but from the
> client side i see a strig like Samba 1.9.16p2 though i nmbd_startup.com i put an
> option "-C Laboratorio Linguistica" on the nmbd line.
> have you any idea?
> Thank you very much and best regards
> Lorenzo Cioni
> PS Please don't answer me to use Pathworks, it would be a sensless answer..

	Matti Rinat-Nikkola