Problems installing on an Alpha system

[David Taubner]

Right - zip works best.
 
I should have mentioned - I wanted to pass this info to the VMS newbies who
would likely encounter some need to FTP savesets or executables and wouldn't
know this stuff.  I have to jump through the hoops to get patches from
Compaq's (and third party's) websites to work, and sooner or later they will
also have to "jump".   :-)
 



David Taubner 
CIS Systems Administrator 
Health Sciences Centre 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-erik Söderholm (QAC) [mailto:Jan-erik.Soderholm at pac.ericsson.se]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:33 AM
To: 'samba-vms at lists.samba.org'
Subject: RE: Problems installing on an Alpha system


Or simply use a VMS-aware ZIP version on both systems.
 
Then you just ZIP the file, FTP through any number of systems
(as binary), and then UNZIP on the target VMS system. Works
for *any* variant of a VMS file. BCK, RBF, OBJ whatever.
 
I'v neved had to adjust anything after the UNZIP.
 
Jan-Erik Söderholm.
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: David Taubner [mailto:DTaubner at exchange.hsc.mb.ca]
Sent: den 7 februari 2002 15:33
To: 'samba-vms at lists.samba.org'
Subject: RE: Problems installing on an Alpha system



Here is some useful info to transfer files from a PC to OpenVMS:
 
If you need to transfer a software patch through an intermediate non-OpenVMS
system, use BINARY mode to transfer the files to and from that system. 
 
Also, make sure the save set record size is 2048 bytes when you transfer the
file from the intermediate system to your OpenVMS system: 
 
* If you use the GET command to download the file from the intermediate
system, use the FTP RECORD-SIZE 2048 command before transferring the file. 
 
* If you use the PUT command to upload the file to your OpenVMS system, log
into the intermediate system and use the FTP quote site rms recsize 2048
command before transferring the file. 
 
 
 
When transferring VMS backup savesets, the correct block size is often lost,
resulting in an inability for BACKUP to read the file. 
You can correct this using the following command: 
 
SET FILE/ATTRIBUTES=(LRL=32256,RFM:FIX) SAVESET.BCK 
 
(assuming the correct blocksize is 32256). 
 


David Taubner 
CIS Systems Administrator 
Health Sciences Centre 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Meehan [mailto:PeterM at georgejames.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:59 AM
To: 'samba-vms at lists.samba.org'
Subject: Problems installing on an Alpha system



Hi, 

I am a complete beginner with Samba and do not have a lot of VMS experience,
I guess my problems are prob with VMS rather than Samba.

I have an Alpha 1000 running open VMS 7.1,  I downloaded the binary version
of Samba 2.0.3 (Alpha version samba-2_0_3-vms0-bin_alpha) onto a PC (Windows
NT4) from a samba mirror site ,  I extracted the zipped files on the PC and
transferred them to the Alpha by FTP (WS FTP PRO) using auto detect for the
binary/text option.

I also downloaded the cnlt file (samba_crtl-021-bin_alpha) dated the 15th
November 1999 into the same directory and did @LINK as instructed in the
readme.vms file.

I got this error 

%RMS-W-RTB, 512 byte record too large for user's buffer 

Do I have to make some changes to the VMS set up or has something gone wrong
in the download ftp process?  All help appreciated

Regards 
Peter 

George James Software
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Middlesex
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United Kingdom 
www.georgejames.com
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