Mapping Windows 2000 Drives/Shares from VMS

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Mon Feb 16 15:05:24 GMT 2004


Matthew Robey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running VMS V7.3-1 with TCPIP V5.3 eco 2 and Samba V2.2.8
> 
> Is it possible to map a Windows 2000 drive/share from VMS  ?
> I can list the shares by doing:
> 
> $ smbc "-L" windows server "-U" username
> 
> But I cant work out how to use it to 'map' a drive.

You can not map a drive on OpenVMS.

It would require implementing a SMB file ACP on OpenVMS, and that would 
be a lot of work, and probably require the source listings.

With out an assist from some TCP/IP internals, it also probably would be 
extremely slow.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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