New Samba/VMS Release : build 20040908

COLLOT Jean-Yves jean-yves.collot at cofiroute.fr
Wed Sep 8 11:09:28 GMT 2004


As you see, with this release I start a new policy of naming the kit files.
I hope it will satisfy those of you who asked for an easiest way of managing
the Samba/VMS versions.

The kits will now be named SAMBA-2_2_8-specific-buildnumber.zip, where :
- "specific" can be :
	o OBJ    : Objects files for all Alpha/VMS versions.
	o VMS73-OBJ    : Objects files for Alpha/VMS version 7.3-1 and
above. Supports big files.
	o OBJ-VAX : Objects files for all VAX/VMS versions.
	o SRC : Sources and procedures, all Alpha/VMS and VAX/VMS versions.
	o VMS73-SRC : Sources and procedures, Alpha/VMS version 7.3-1 and
above
- "buildnumber" will be formed with the release date (i.e. 20040824 for the
24-AUG-2004). There will never exist more than one kit per day

In addition, for a better compatibility, the backups are now created with
the /INTERCHANGE option.


Now, the news.


1. A new "VMS Record Format" share parameter has been added. It defines the
RMS record type of the files created by Samba, i.e. the way VMS will see
those files. The default is "stream", but it can be forced to "stream_lf".
Support of this parameter has been added in SWAT, at the end of the
Miscellaneous Options (Advanced View).
This feature can be useful in some specific situations, when the records
written by the clients are separated with <LF>, instead of the standard
Windows <CR><LF>, and when those files must be processed by VMS programs or
procedures.
 
2. A procedure MAKE_SAMBA_GUEST_ACCOUNT.COM has been added in the [BIN]
area. It creates a Samba "Guest" account named SAMBA__GUEST (taken from
Samba/VMS 2.0.6, thanks to John E. Malmberg)

3. A procedure SAMBA_COMMANDS.COM has been added in the [BIN] area. It
creates DCL symbols for an easier way of using the Samba utilities. (thanks
to John E. Malmberg too)

4. The template SMB.CONF has been reviewed to be compatible with version
2.2.8. It gives an example of a VMS server within a Windows Domain.

5. The default debug level of some utilities (SMBCLIENT,NMBLOOKUP) has been
reset to 0

6. An erroneous message in the sub-feature of sending messages with
SMBCLIENT has been corrected.

7. The code has been checked in order to remove the /STANDARD=VAXC compiler
option in COMPILE.COM, and to remove irrelevant warnings and informations.
However, depending upon the version of the DECC compiler you use, you may
encounter a lot of informational messages if you choose to recompile
Samba/VMS from the sources. You may prefer to use the old procedure, which
is now included under the name COMPILE_STD_VAXC.COM

Once again, thanks to those of you that asked for those enhancements, or
pointed out the problems that I tried to fix.

JYC


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