VMS TCP/IP 5.3

[George Watson]

Any problems with Samba 2.2.4 on VMS TCPIP 5.3?

Thanks,
Mike Ober.
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Mike,

  I installed 2.2.4 over the weekend on Alpha VMS 7.3-1/TCPIP 5.3.
I ended up making two source changes.

  1) You have already noticed this one: SWAT doesn't work as an inetd 
(port 901) service.  That is because an access check is done against file 
descriptor 1 (a constant!) which isn't correct for VMS.  The code change is in 
[.WEB]CGI.C: move the "if(!check_access(1,..." after the conditional VMS
section (which closes stdin and accesses the special inetd socket), and 
change the constant 1 to stdin.

  2) SMBCLIENT doesn't accept terminal input, because of fancy stuff it is
trying to do while waiting for your input.  Doing select on non-sockets 
always causes trouble in VMS.  As far as I can tell, this is the only place 
anywhere in the code where the routine smb_readline is used.  So I made a 
change in [.LIB]READLINE.C to just do a simple fgets and return #ifdef VMS.
That means all the fancy keepalive timer/command completion/command history
won't work, but at least SMBCLIENT will be usable.

	- GGW3
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George Watson, Terabase Corporation
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