HP announces CIFS ON IA64 Evaluation kit.

[John E. Malmberg]

Quoted from the HP announcement:

We are pleased to announce the availability of the HP OpenVMS Common
Internet File System (CIFS) IA64 "evaluation" kit.

The HP OpenVMS Common Internet File System (CIFS) provides users with 
seamless file and print interoperability between OpenVMS and 
Windows-based clients.  The OpenVMS file and print services evaluation 
kit is based on the  Samba.org Open Source/Free Software suite which 
provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

The kit has been developed to run on OpenVMS Itanium platforms. It is 
similar to implementations that are in place today supporting Linux and 
UNIX operating environments. An "Alpha" evaluation kit will follow in 
the near future.  For download access to the OpenVMS Itanium evaluation 
kit and access to current CIFS information please utilize our CIFS home 
page found at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/CIFS_for_Samba.html .

For direct access to the evaluation kit download please refer to 
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/cifs_register.html. You will be asked 
to register for this free evaluation kit.

Please note that this is an evaluation kit and not meant for 
"production" implementations. For information on the availability of 
"production" versions of CIFS please refer to the OpenVMS road maps 
found at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/roadmap/openvms_roadmaps.htm .

As always we appreciate your timely feed back via our web site process.
Please feel free to provide us advice on the products ease of 
implementation, its documentation, the products functionality and where 
new features may be warranted

End quote.

As this is a technical audience:

Please send feedback about the evaluation kit to the e-mail address 
provided with it as that will get the attention of all the engineers 
working on the product.  Sending it to my e-mail address or just posting 
here may delay getting the issues addressed.

This kit is based on SAMBA 3.0.10 and is basically the minimum amount of 
work to make a functional SAMBA server for ODS-5 volumes so that HP can 
get feedback on what functionality should get priority.

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-John
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