Samba-1.9.16p2-VMS-4 1-Nov-1996 SAMBA is a package that allows VMS systems to share file systems with other systems (including file sharing with Windows, NT, etc.) This is version 1.9.16 of Samba, the free SMB client and server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by the Samba Team, who support the original author and principal maintainer, Andrew Tridgell. >>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information >>>> about the configuration and use of Samba. This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file called COPYING). WHAT IS SMB? ============ This is a big question. The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of PC-related machines share files and printers and other informatiuon such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows, VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. There is no reason why Apple Macs and indeed any Web browser should not be able to speak this protocol, and current development (in which the Samba team is heavily involved) is aimed at exactly that. Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines by default. The Common Internet Filesystem is what the new SMB initiative is called. For details watch http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs. WHAT CAN SAMBA DO? ================== Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. - a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others. - a Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which among other things gives browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish. - a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs For a much better overview have a look at the web site at http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba, and browse the user survey. Related packages include: - smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with Linux 2.0 and later. - tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip. - smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it easy to smb-ise any particular application. See ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/smblib. See samba-main.txt here. Location: ftp://ftp.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/vms/samba Info: http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html This is SAMBA for VMS. Ported to VMS by Eckart Meyer Executables for VAX and Alpha of the UNZIP program can be found one directory up. Read the file README.VMS. ===================================== This software is still alpha test. It has not been widely tested until now. It currently runs with UCX or UCX emulation. ===================================== V1.9.16p2-VMS4 has only changes in the command procedues. Binaries are the same than in V1.9.16p2-VMS2. ========================================================= The main purpose of this update is to support MultiNet and TCPware. Since there are only few changes from -VMS2 (and -VMS3) to -VMS4, an update archive is provided. This archive simply contains the updated .COM and text files. For the binary distribution, extract the files into the sambe directory where the -VMS2 version has been extracted. For the source distribution, extract to the [.VMS] directory. UPDATE_VMS2_AND_VMS3_TO_VMS4.ZIP The updated files. SAMBA-1_9_16P2-VMS4.ZIP The full original samba kit with VMS changes. Use this archive to build SAMBA for VMS from source. SAMBA-1_9_16P2-VMS4-BIN_ALPHA_UCX.ZIP SAMBA-1_9_16P2-VMS4-BIN_VAX_UCX.ZIP Binaries for VMS V6 and higher with UCX V3.3 and higher. Plus all documentation and examples. Extract to an empty directory and type @LINK and @INSTALL. (earlier VMS VAX system like V5.5-2 can install AACRT060.A to provide a DEC-C V6 environment. Samba should then run those systems). Eckart Meyer