HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8

[Boyce, Nick]

>> are there any benefits
>> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
> 
> yes there are lots of benefits ... It is been qualified on the latest 
> hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with the latest OSes

On the other hand, I believe HP's CIFS-for-VMS product isn't available
for VAXen, or on VMS versions earlier than 7.3-2 .... so if you've got
one of those platforms (more common than you might think) then you have
to stick with JYC Samba.

Someone please let me know if I'm wrong :)

Nick Boyce
EDS ASFO EMEA, Bristol, UK




-----Original Message-----
From: samba-vms-bounces+nick.boyce=eds.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-vms-bounces+nick.boyce=eds.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
Of Aravinda Guzzar
Sent: 09 May 2008 05:58
To: Michael Ober
Cc: samba-vms at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8

Hi Mike,

yes there are lots of benefits migrating from 2.2.8 to the latest
version of
CIFS on VMS.

It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with
the
latest OSes. There is support for VMS specific file formats viz.
Varaible
Length formats, StreamLF and supports ODS2 disks also. It is been
qualified
on the clusters also. So you will get the benefit of the clusters.

Please note that you need to have the latest CRTL patches. before you
migrate and as a suggestion please test the software on your test
hardwares,
and convince yourself before migrating to the production.

Regards
Aravind


On 5/9/08, Michael Ober <mdo at wakeassoc.com> wrote:
>
> Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any
benefits
> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Ober.
>
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