Samba crashs VMS

[John E. Malmberg]

Eyal.Shaynis at ecitele.com wrote:
> I'm a newbie with Samba on VMS.
> 
> After installing and configuring Samba 2.0.3 on VAX/VMS 5.5-2 using UCX,
> if I try to update a file from my PC, the VMS crashes (panic)

The only privileged code in SAMBA 2.0.x is unlikely to be able to crash 
the system.

It would take analyzing the crash to find out the exact cause.  For 
OpenVMS VAX 5.5-2, and UCX there are many patches that have been 
released that may or may not address the problem.

The current OpenVMS VAX version is 7.3 and most VAXes that will run 
5.5-2 will run 7.3 just fine.

SAMBA 2.0.3 is also old.  I do not know if the newer SAMBA will work on 
5.5-2.

You can find 2.2.8 source and some binaries at:

http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/

If you are really into experimentation, you can find out what it takes 
to get the 2.2.12 source at http://encompasserve.org/~malmberg/samba to 
build on OpenVMS VAX.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
Personal Opinion Only

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