Everhart,Glenn From: Gotfryd Smolik [gotfryd@stanpol.com.pl] Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 1:10 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: RE: Sharing disk resource from an Alpha On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nigel White wrote: +On Wednesday, February 25, 1998 6:55, KT +[SMTP:kingston@mbox4.singnet.com.sg] wrote: +> What I need is actually to have, inside NT explorer, a disk mapping in +>the form: +> \\\FILESERVICE and the directory on the VMS Alpha becomes +> a network drive on the NT system. [cut] +It is alleged that SAMBA can do this though I have downloaded it, +compiled it, and started it, and cannot access my VMS disk from NT, +though the node name appears in the browse list. The docs aren't very +helpful. - exists the samba list: samba-vms@samba.anu.edu.au - Nigel: look for: UCX> SHO SERVICE and check if the SMBD service is enabled. Have seen that the startup of SAMBA (at least in the version I have) has a bug because some unresolvable (in the startup used way) problem (the service can't be enabled before SAMBA_STARTUP and SAMBA_STARTUP can't start before UCX !) but haven't find enoyght time to precise my comment, check if still correct and sent to the maintenaner -:( (anyway: I *will*...) Check simple: - doing UCX> SET SERVICE SMBD ENABLE *after* start of UCX and SAMBA. This may be the point. - if not - STARTUP_SAMBA two time. The reason that you see SAMBA server is that the SMBD process is running (have check ?) but the client network process can't run because the service was not enabled (have check ?) And the reason is simple: "file not found" before defining the proper logical ! Myself have divide the startup to two part and all work correct... -:) +I'm not sure of the address I got it from, you could do a web search + for it. http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html +If you get it working, let me know how you did it!!!! Do a check and answer ! +Nigel [] +Nigel White mailto:nigel@synergex.com Regards - Gotfryd -- ===================================================================== $ ON F$ERROR("LANGUAGE","ENGLISH","IN_MESSAGE").GT.F$ERROR("NORMAL") - THEN EXCUSE/OBJECT=ME $! GS@stanpol.zabrze.pl =====================================================================