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

[Chris Townley]

On 15/05/2024 01:15, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
I just sort of got used to Samba. I have it running on a few Raspberry 
Pis, as well as my Ubuntu host for VMS under KVM. That works well, but I 
will give it a rest for now, then maybe have another rattle at it when I 
have a bit more energy

I generally use FTP, or copy to a Pi, then scp it across. Also just 
installed WinSCP which is a pretty good tool

-- 
Chris