[Info-vax] X86VMS SAMBA V4.10-16D

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/14/2024 6:38 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 14/05/2024 03:51, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 5/13/2024 4:14 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> I tried installing this on 9.2-2 - all prerequisites followed, but I 
>>> am damned if I can get it to work. I have set it up as a Standalone 
>>> Server with just a couple of basic shares, which is all I want. I 
>>> have no problems with Samba on a variety of linuxes (?)
>>>
>>> The VSI release notes say to refer to the Samba site, and also to the 
>>> VSI Samba release notes! Not helpful.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any VMS based guides/notes - all the commands are 
>>> hidden, and obviously different when you find them. No help files...
>>>
>>> What sort of paths do we use in the smb.conf file? VMS, or pseudo 
>>> unix ones.
>>
>> You can't do everything using @SAMBA$CONFIG?
>>
>> Docs are indeed scarce. Google found:
>>
>> https://community.hpe.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/itrc-293/56389/1/303284.pdf
>>
>> which is a very old version, but may still have something.
>>
>> And it does use *nix syntax for path (page 3-14).
>>
> Thanks, but I already have CIFS v1.1 docs, but that barely helps
> 
> This version seems to sit on LDAP, which I installed as a pre-requisite, 
> but again no docs on that. Digging deeper that seems to want to use SLAP 
> again no docs and limited help. That failed with a ageing quota error, 
> so I managed to set a smaller max DB size. Still getting nothing except 
> errors.

It is not possible to ask Samba to use local VMS accounts instead of AD 
(LDAP)?

LDAP docs was asked for 2 years ago:
     https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8497
but ...

> I don't really need it, so I give up. Will probably uninstall
> 
> VSI are doing themselves no favours putting out changed open source 
> utilities without any documentation. At least HP used to have their own 
> docs.

Someone could volunteer to add to:
     https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/Samba_Installation

:-)

I liked PathWorks back in the days.

I have never liked Samba.

Today I just use COPY/FTP for moving files
between Windows and VMS.

Arne