Running samba on VMS

[Boyce, Nick]

On 23 Jun 2003 at 11:29 Charles Kenyon wrote :

> If you know any body that has experience with samba on 
> open VMS for the alpha please could you forward contact details.

Do you mean you want to pay someone for consultancy ?
If so, have you seen http://us2.samba.org/samba/support/uk.html

If you just want to ask technical questions to help you get Samba working,
then why not just fire away ?   Almost everyone on this list has
Samba-for-VMS experience.   (But be sure to give details of your precise
needs.)

You should note that the VMS port of Samba has some degree of limitation
compared with the Un*x version, and there are particular wrinkles that need
to be taken account of.

But Samba-for-VMS is hugely cheaper and easier to administer than Hewpaq's
Pathworks product - we use it heavily at this datacentre, specifically for
simple file transfers between the Windows and VMS environments - we don't do
anything complicated ... like printing, or using Windows editors to edit VMS
files.

Nick Boyce
EDS Southwest Solution Centre, Bristol, UK