smbd serves connects only when ran in interactive mode (-i)

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Mon Sep 20 11:08:23 GMT 2004


Ashot Bord wrote:
> JY, thanks for trying it out!
> 
> I ran it on SIMH, the simulator. It is not speedy for CPU, but fast with IO.  
> It may as well be that the CPU speed is the cause of the broken socket, but FTP
> in service mode doesn't have any sensible delays and doesn't time-out, 
> and it also spawns a child.

> I still suspect there could be some sockets issue, possibly related to TCPIP 
> itself. I read of other users  running SAMBA on SIMH, though  not sure about 
> their VMS/TCPIP config.

Try installing the SMBD.EXE image as /SHARED/HEADER resident.  This will 
both speed up the image activation time, and will also reduce the 
physical/virtual memory requirements of running SAMBA.

IIRC: There is some code in SAMBA 2.0.6 that calculates a machine SID on 
startup, and since VMS does not support the preferred routines, the fall 
back is not very efficient.  I have not checked that section of the 
2.2.8 port yet to see if has that issue.

-John
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