This is my first attempt at building SAMBA.

It is version 1.9.16p2.  An antique.  No encrypted password support.

I have completely changed by build environment since building this.
This was built with an out of date GCC compiler, using the VMS POSIX Header
files.  The build file is SAMBA.MMS, and the [.VMS]SETUP_GCC.COM is used
instead of SETUP.COM.  I do not know if it will build with my current set up.

The right to install and use POSIX is included in the VMS license, but the
media is not included on the hobby CD set.

I do not know if it will currently build with the new GCC headers that I have
put together.

The only reason that I am keeping it arround is that the NMBD for the
sambavms.1.9.19 pre-alpha will not run due to a limitation in the IPACP for
CMU-IP.

I am not interested in knowing about any bugs in this code.  Consider it AS-IS.
Because it is so old, I doubt that the official SAMBA or SAMBA-VMS list is
interested either.


If I remember correctly the diagnostic logging is currently coded to always go
to SYS$OUTPUT:.

All the images are build in debug, and you need to unpack the source in to
logical disk PROJECT_ROOT: in the directory [VMS.SAMBA...] if you want to run
them in DEBUG and see the source.


Set up the SAMBA according the the standard directory structure.  I am not sure
if any of the command files work for setting them up.
Due to limitations in the VAXCRTL or DECCRTL, some file specifications must be
in the DEVICE:[XXX] format.


The NMBD.EXE should be able to be run with the RUN/NODEBUG command detached.
You can also use the DEFINE/USER SYS$OUTPUT NLA0: command in front of it to
eliminate the first few messages.  If you define it as a foreign command it
will go into debug.  Note: I have never run it detached.


I think that the SMBD.EXE will still work.  I have not tested it recently and
have never run it detached.

The SMBCLIENT.EXE program, If I remember correctly is flaky.  Something is
wrong timing related somewhere.  Rerunning the command or the program usually
gets the transfer successfully.

I do not recall testing the rest of the executables at all.  I was mostly
concerned with getting the SMBD program to work.

-John
WB8TYW@K4HRY.#MIDTN.TN.USA.NOAM