Newbie questions

[Jan-Erik Söderholm XA (TN/PAC)]

> 1. Does SAMBA need to be installed on the Windows
> machine, the  VMS machine, or both?

SAMBA "emulates" an NT/Windows server and is only installed
at the server-side, in this case VMS.

> 2. How complex a task is it to do this installation?

For a VMS admin, piece of cake...
For a non VMS admin, well... :-)

> 3. Is it a security nightmare? (I'm in a highly controlled 
> gov't facility).

Don't know. Should use the VMS security, as far as I know, which
is as good as you can ever ask for...

Jan-Erik.