DECC Runtime Library, SAMBA 2.2.4 on OpenVMS 6.2

[Naveed Ahmed]

I am trying to install SAMBA 2.2.4 on OpenVMS 6.2 on VAX, I don't have DECC
license.

I have few questions:

1) Is Frontport required for SAMBA 2.2.4?
2) To compile frontport in previous versions i.e. < 7.1 , as stated in
FREEWARE_README.TXT you need sys$share:decc$crtl.olb, does this file come
with new DECC Runtime library? Can it be downloaded separately for free, or
DECC license must be purchased?
3) Is it possible to link SAMBA 2.2.4 on previous version of OpenVMS with
new DECC RTL?

I would really appreciate if someone can answer these questions.

Thanks,
Naveed
----- Original Message -----
From: <jean-yves.collot at cofiroute.fr>
To: "Samba VMS" <samba-vms at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: RE: Samba ods-5 problems


> Hi.
>
> As far as ODS-5 is concerned, I never did actual testing about it, because
> it needs at least the VMS 7.3 version of the DECC library in order to
start
> to work correctly, and I had no time yet to install it.
>
> The reason you can't create files or directories is that because the
volume
> is ODS-5, Samba does not use its algorithm for encoding file names
> containing invalid characters, such as blanks, so it tries to create, for
> example, "New File.txt"
> However, because the DECC library does not support ODS-5, you can't create
> such a file, because it contains invalid characters. Funny, isn't it ?
>
> If you don't have the correct DECC run-time library, a turn-around is to
> force SAMBA to encode the file names even on ODS-5 volumes. You can do
that
> by adding the following line in the SMBD_STARTUP.COM procedure :
> $ DEFINE SAMBA_FILESPEC_ENCODE ALWAYS
>
> If you have a correct version of the DECC run-time library, you must add
> some DECC logical names in the SMBD_STARTUP.COM command procedure, in
order
> to enable the ODS-5 support by DECC. I don't remember them, so please
refer
> to the DECC user's guide. As I said, I never had the opportunity of
testing
> it, so I can't guarantee it works.
>
>
>