[Info-vax] Pathworks or one of its descendants on x86

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-02-22 03:48:38 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> 
> All this discussion about file servers may be somewhat mute for any 
> traditional OS platform as many med-large customers are now deploying 
> appliance CIFS/NFS solutions.
> 
> 😊

Yeah; Synology makes some very nice boxes that are easy to install and 
manage and seemingly also finding footholds in parts of the server 
market with some capabilities well beyond those of a file share.

Oh, and it's a good thing that OpenVMS has an SMB client available.  
Oh, wait.  It doesn't.    There are some CIFS-era tools around for 
command line access, but no client for current SMB.  And more than a 
few folks running OpenVMS have used FTP — security issues and all — or 
sftp to push and pull files from the local file server.  That really 
gets awkward, but it's what we have.  And the available SMB server for 
OpenVMS is CIFS-era and insecure, so that's not popular with folks.

NFS is certainly around and it's in common use in some environments.  
SMB is ubiquitous.  OpenVMS does have an NFS client available, 
particularly if you're current on your TCP/IP Services patches.

OpenVMS is not soon again the central SMB file share for a local 
network as DEC had once envisioned it, but OpenVMS can and will have to 
play in networks where SMB is one of the ways that files are moved 
around within distributed processing.



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