Everhart, Glenn
From:	mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Sent:	Tuesday, June 23, 1998 8:31 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	samba 1.9.19, pre-pre-pre alpha of smbclient
Hi all,

I've been working on upgrading the Samba port to a version which can talk
to NT 4.0 SP3 - handle the encrypted passwords properly.  I started with 
Samba 1.9.19 and merged in the pieces from the existing VMS port.  This 
newer version claims to be able to function as a PDC, and has various other
improvements over the version which was previously ported. 

The server part isn't ready yet, but if some of you would like to test the
SMBCLIENT, and you've got an OpenVMS 7.1 Alpha system, please have a look
at: 

  ftp://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/software/smbclient.zip

After you unzip it, try:

  $ smbclient "-L" machine "-U" username
  $ smbclient "\\machine\share" "-U" username

Known bug:  GET on text files stamps the wrong RMS attributes on the file.
They come back stream-lf, but that isn't how they are set.  You can fix 
them after the fact with: 

  $ set file/attrib=rfm:stmlf file.ext

Please report bugs OTHER than that one.  (If it won't let you connect at 
all there is something wrong with username/password or the name of the 
share - don't report that!)  If you don't already have samba (and the
samba_root logical) there will be some warnings when the program starts,
but it should still run.  Example:

$ smbclient "\\machine\user"
load_client_codepage: filename /samba_root/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist.
Added interface ip=xxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx bcast=xxx.xxx.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
Server time is Tue Jun 23 17:25:55 1998
Timezone is UTC-7.0
Password: Domain=[SAF] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.19-prealpha]
security=share
smb: \>dir
  .netscape                          DH         0  Thu Jun 18 15:47:03 1998
  .neditdb                            H       210  Thu Jun 18 15:38:18 1998
  altprefix.mpc                               460  Mon May  4 13:10:19 1998
  altprefix2.mpc                              390  Mon May  4 13:10:19 1998
  test.c                                      130  Tue Feb  3 11:25:36 1998
  test                                A     13036  Tue Feb  3 11:25:47 1998
  mini2.html                          A       250  Fri Feb 27 10:52:18 1998
smb: get altprefix2.mpc
getting file \altprefix2.mpc of size 390 bytes as altprefix2.mpc (1.70026 kb/s) (average 1.70027 kb/s)
smb: \> exit

If any of you will be game to test the server, please let me know. I
suspect that such testing should be done on a machine which can withstand a
few crashes.  

General feedback query:  Would SMBCLIENT for OpenVMS benefit from explicit 
binary/text mode specification?  (Ie, as in FTP.)  

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech 
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