From: David Mathog [mathog@caltech.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:56 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: New product allows VMS to become part of a PC Lan! Alan Greig wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2001 08:36:22 -0600, koehler@encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) > wrote: > > >In article , bob@instantwhip.com (Bob Ceculski) writes: > > > >> Just ran across this amazing product as we were looking to make our > >> Alpha > >> VMS system part of our local PC Lan and ran across this amazing > >> product ... > >> they also have a product that allows VMS pc disk access ... amazing! > >> here is > >> the link if anyone is interested ... > > > > Nothing like being 15 years behind the times, and 10 years behind the > > freeware. > > I thought at first surely this is just Pathworks or Samba but actually > the product Bob describes allows VMS systems to access NT print queues > and shares which is the reverse of the functionality provided by > Pathworks and Samba. Although I have heard that Samba may have some > ability to allow a user to access NT shares from VMS. Samba has smbclient allows you to do a lot of things from the VMS side. For file access/transfer it's not nearly as handy as some sort of pseudo-disk driver would be. Anyway, here's some code for queueing print jobs through smbclient to windows printers: ftp://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/openvms/print_to_windows.zip Regards, David Mathog mathog@caltech.edu