Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1411
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:01:11 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Thursday 04 January 2007
 Number  1411
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
2  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
3  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
4  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ken Laurie <ken.laurie at graeleah dot com>
5  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
6  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
7  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
8  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ken Laurie <ken.laurie at graeleah dot com>
9  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
10  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client : Ian Manners" <deadmail>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:59:41 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk to 
> a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported SAMBA 
> client ?
>
>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try to 
> map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>
>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>
> Cheers/2
Hi Ed,

I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, (downloaded 
many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed whilst reading 
the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to have a SAMBA 
client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server running on 
Linux/WIN.

Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)

Regards,
Mike

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**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:17:01 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk to 
>> a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported SAMBA 
>> client ?
>>
>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try to 
>> map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>
>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>
>> Cheers/2
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, (downloaded 
> many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed whilst reading 
> the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to have a SAMBA 
> client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server running on 
> Linux/WIN.
> 
> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
It definately seems to be the case as Windoze can connect without issues 
but OS/2's SMB client hangs when trying to perform a net use or net view 
to it.

That's a bad reflection on SAMBA in some ways, SMB is a standard - the 
OS/2 client was one of the first SMB clients, it doesn't support that, 
then it's effectively a Windoze only solution. My suspecion is that it 
does not work with NETBEUI only TCPBEUI.

Cheers/2

Ed.

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**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:20:38 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>
>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try 
>>> to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>
>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server 
>> running on Linux/WIN.
>>
>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
> It definately seems to be the case as Windoze can connect without 
> issues but OS/2's SMB client hangs when trying to perform a net use or 
> net view to it.
>
> That's a bad reflection on SAMBA in some ways, SMB is a standard - the 
> OS/2 client was one of the first SMB clients, it doesn't support that, 
> then it's effectively a Windoze only solution. My suspecion is that it 
> does not work with NETBEUI only TCPBEUI.
>
> Cheers/2
Hi Ed,

Have you tried : (announced on VOICE-NEWS list 08 June 2005

    netlabs dot org released a new version of Samba Server & Client for OS/2 and
    eCS. Both are based on the official Samba 3.0.9 sourcecode, related
    patches are available in the netlabs dot org CVS repository.

    New in this release is EA support!

    The packages are declared as alpha or beta but we got very positive
    feedback so far, the packages seem to be stable and fast! Some useres
    already replaced IBM Peer with it so you might give it a try!

    URL: http://samba dot netlabs dot org/

and more recently there have been a number of successive releases of 
e.g. on 08 nov 2006:

    Netdrive Samba client plugin  3.0.9 Beta 14

    http://samba dot netlabs dot org/

    "SAMBA is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client
    set originally
    made for UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and OS/2
    servers or
    clients. OS/2 has native implementation of SMB/CIFS server/client
    set - IBM LAN
    Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven't been updated for a long
    time and
    have some compatibility problems with modern Windows SMB/CIFS
    implementations.

    This package is the OS/2 port of SAMBA 3.0.9 client made as the
    plugin to
    NetDrive - a well known virtual file system for OS/2. OS/2 SAMBA
    client provides
    seamles access to SMB/CIFS file shares over your network using
    TCP/IP as the
    underlying transport protocol.

    The OS/2 SAMBA client consists of two modules:
       ndpsmb.dll - the NetDrive plugin itself.
       smbcd.exe  - the SAMBA client daemon, which actually processes
    the requests
                    from ndpsmb.dll."

    Samba Client NetDrive plugin updated:
    ftp://ftp dot netlabs dot org/pub/samba/ndpsmb-3.0.9-b14.zip

    Bugs should be reported to the XTracker at:
    http://xtracker dot netlabs dot org/index.php?project=22

    According to the web site  comments about SAMBA Client for OS/2 and
    eCS should be posted to the OS/2 newsgroup comp.os.os2.beta.

    Changelog:
     beta14:
       - moved to libc custom build

Regards,
Mike

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**= Email   4 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:28:10 +1100
From:  Ken Laurie <ken.laurie at graeleah dot com>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Hi

I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.

Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
[D:\]net view \\gateway
Shared resources at \\gateway
Gateway server

Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Epson        Print                 Epson R210
EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
Logs         Disk                  Log files
netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
Photos       Print                 Photo settings
profiles     Disk                  Profiles
The command completed successfully.

regards
Ken

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk to 
>> a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported SAMBA 
>> client ?
>>
>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try to 
>> map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>
>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>
>> Cheers/2
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, (downloaded 
> many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed whilst reading 
> the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to have a SAMBA 
> client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server running on 
> Linux/WIN.
> 
> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:11:44 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Ken Laurie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
> use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
> only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
> use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.
>
> Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
> [D:\]net view \\gateway
> Shared resources at \\gateway
> Gateway server
>
> Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 
>
> Epson        Print                 Epson R210
> EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
> EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
> ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
> xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
> Logs         Disk                  Log files
> netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
> Photos       Print                 Photo settings
> profiles     Disk                  Profiles
> The command completed successfully.
>
> regards
> Ken
>
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>
>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try 
>>> to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>
>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server 
>> running on Linux/WIN.
>>
>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
Hi Ken,

Long time no talk! Well I really got that wrong didn't I! :-[ 
Should have remembered about 6-7 years ago I was using REXEC/RSH etc. to 
RedHat 6.x.
Ed will be pleased to hear your good news though. :-)
Can you use all the regular NET commands with those SAMBA shares, or are 
they only accessed as UNC addresses?

Regards,
Mike

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**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:19:46 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>>
>>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>>>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try 
>>>> to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>>
>>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>>>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers/2
>>> Hi Ed,
>>>
>>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server 
>>> running on Linux/WIN.
>>>
>>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>>
>> It definately seems to be the case as Windoze can connect without 
>> issues but OS/2's SMB client hangs when trying to perform a net use or 
>> net view to it.
>>
>> That's a bad reflection on SAMBA in some ways, SMB is a standard - the 
>> OS/2 client was one of the first SMB clients, it doesn't support that, 
>> then it's effectively a Windoze only solution. My suspecion is that it 
>> does not work with NETBEUI only TCPBEUI.
>>
>> Cheers/2
> Hi Ed,
> 
> Have you tried : (announced on VOICE-NEWS list 08 June 2005
> 
>    netlabs dot org released a new version of Samba Server & Client for OS/2 and
>    eCS. Both are based on the official Samba 3.0.9 sourcecode, related
>    patches are available in the netlabs dot org CVS repository.
> ..................

> Regards,
> Mike
> 
Thanks Mike, I *KNEW* I'd seen something recently. Checked the 
manufacturers website (as the handbook advises) but there's no support 
section there at all, only marketing stuff.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   7 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:07:39 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Hi Ken,

   I was also using commandline but with no luck either a net use 
command or a net view command simply hang and go no further.

   I guess it's the version of Samba that they're using as it works from 
a Windoze box.

   I'll try the netlabs Samba client and see if that's any better.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Ken Laurie wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
> use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
> only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
> use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.
> 
> Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
> [D:\]net view \\gateway
> Shared resources at \\gateway
> Gateway server
> 
> Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 
> 
> Epson        Print                 Epson R210
> EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
> EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
> ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
> xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
> Logs         Disk                  Log files
> netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
> Photos       Print                 Photo settings
> profiles     Disk                  Profiles
> The command completed successfully.
> 
> regards
> Ken
> 
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk to 
>>> a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported SAMBA 
>>> client ?
>>>
>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try to 
>>> map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>
>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server 
>> running on Linux/WIN.
>>
>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
 
> 
> 

> 

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**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:23:40 +1100
From:  Ken Laurie <ken.laurie at graeleah dot com>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Hi Ed

This is the version of SAMBA on the server.

]# net -V
Version 3.0.20a-2.2.cc

regards
Ken

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
>   I was also using commandline but with no luck either a net use command 
> or a net view command simply hang and go no further.
> 
>   I guess it's the version of Samba that they're using as it works from 
> a Windoze box.
> 
>   I'll try the netlabs Samba client and see if that's any better.
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
> 
> Ken Laurie wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
>> use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
>> only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
>> use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.
>>
>> Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
>> [D:\]net view \\gateway
>> Shared resources at \\gateway
>> Gateway server
>>
>> Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
>> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 
>>
>> Epson        Print                 Epson R210
>> EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
>> EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
>> ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
>> xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
>> Logs         Disk                  Log files
>> netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
>> Photos       Print                 Photo settings
>> profiles     Disk                  Profiles
>> The command completed successfully.
>>
>> regards
>> Ken
>>
>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>>
>>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. I 
>>>> can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I try 
>>>> to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>>
>>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not exepct 
>>>> the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers/2
>>> Hi Ed,
>>>
>>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA server 
>>> running on Linux/WIN.
>>>
>>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>>
> 
>>
>> 
>
>>
> 
 
> 
> 

> 
> !DSPAM:1,459caac723611332217754!
> 
> 
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**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:37:07 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Well using NetDrive and the Samba plugin worked so there must be a 
difference in the embedded samba that this cheap NAS uses that stops it 
working with standard OS/2 Lan requester.

I'll document everything on the NAS for anyone who is interested later.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Ken Laurie wrote:
> Hi Ed
> 
> This is the version of SAMBA on the server.
> 
> ]# net -V
> Version 3.0.20a-2.2.cc
> 
> regards
> Ken
> 
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>>   I was also using commandline but with no luck either a net use 
>> command or a net view command simply hang and go no further.
>>
>>   I guess it's the version of Samba that they're using as it works 
>> from a Windoze box.
>>
>>   I'll try the netlabs Samba client and see if that's any better.
>>
>> Cheers/2
>>
>> Ed.
>>
>> Ken Laurie wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
>>> use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
>>> only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
>>> use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.
>>>
>>> Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
>>> [D:\]net view \\gateway
>>> Shared resources at \\gateway
>>> Gateway server
>>>
>>> Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
>>> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 
>>>
>>> Epson        Print                 Epson R210
>>> EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
>>> EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
>>> ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
>>> xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
>>> Logs         Disk                  Log files
>>> netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
>>> Photos       Print                 Photo settings
>>> profiles     Disk                  Profiles
>>> The command completed successfully.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>>>
>>>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. 
>>>>> I can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I 
>>>>> try to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not 
>>>>> exepct the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers/2
>>>> Hi Ed,
>>>>
>>>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>>>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>>>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>>>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA 
>>>> server running on Linux/WIN.
>>>>
>>>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>>>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mike
>>>>
 
>>>
>>> 

>>>
>>
> 
>>
>> 
>
>>
>> !DSPAM:1,459caac723611332217754!
>>
>>
 
> 
> 

> 

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**= Email   10 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:36:21 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  Samba vs IBM Lan client

Hi Ed

I havent gone to actually check this but I thought Samba was NETBEUI
over TCP/IP only, ie, if you use the old standard NETBEUI protocol
by itself you would not be able to connect to Samba.

You obviously have the TCP/IP stack running, are you running
NETBEUI over TCP/IP, or plain NETBEUI ?

There are also different versions of the SMB, and I believe that
some parts of it were dropped in the NETBEUI over TCP/IP
version for speed purposes, and possibly due to licensing issues
in relation to Samba.

I could have this a bit muddled up as this is coming from some
very distant memories !

Cheers
Ian Manners

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:37:07 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote:

>Well using NetDrive and the Samba plugin worked so there must be a 
>difference in the embedded samba that this cheap NAS uses that stops it 
>working with standard OS/2 Lan requester.
>
>I'll document everything on the NAS for anyone who is interested later.
>
>Cheers/2
>
>Ed.
>
>Ken Laurie wrote:
>> Hi Ed
>> 
>> This is the version of SAMBA on the server.
>> 
>> ]# net -V
>> Version 3.0.20a-2.2.cc
>> 
>> regards
>> Ken
>> 
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>>   I was also using commandline but with no luck either a net use 
>>> command or a net view command simply hang and go no further.
>>>
>>>   I guess it's the version of Samba that they're using as it works 
>>> from a Windoze box.
>>>
>>>   I'll try the netlabs Samba client and see if that's any better.
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>>>
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>> Ken Laurie wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I am actually running a CENTOS Linux box (2 in fact) with SAMBA and I 
>>>> use eCS to connect to them using the standard IBM LAN requester. The 
>>>> only problem I have is if I try to use the WPS to do anything. I just 
>>>> use line commands to copy delete etc on the SAMBA shares.
>>>>
>>>> Here is a net view of one of my Linux boxes:
>>>> [D:\]net view \\gateway
>>>> Shared resources at \\gateway
>>>> Gateway server
>>>>
>>>> Netname      Type         Used as  Comment
>>>> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 
>>>>
>>>> Epson        Print                 Epson R210
>>>> EpsonR210    Print                 EpsonR210
>>>> EpsonR210Win Print                 Epson R210 for Windows
>>>> ftpsite      Disk                  Public FTP Server Folder
>>>> xxxx         Disk                  Home directory of xxxx
>>>> Logs         Disk                  Log files
>>>> netlogon     Disk                  Netlogon
>>>> Photos       Print                 Photo settings
>>>> profiles     Disk                  Profiles
>>>> The command completed successfully.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   can anyone tell me if the standard IBM Lan requester should talk 
>>>>>> to a Samba server without issues or do I need to install a ported 
>>>>>> SAMBA client ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I've bought myself a different NAS unit that runs a SAMBA server. 
>>>>>> I can connect via HTTP and FTP without any issues however when I 
>>>>>> try to map it as a network drive, the action never completes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Could this be an incompatibility between this particular 
>>>>>> implementation of SAMBA and IBM's SMB client or would one not 
>>>>>> exepct the IBM client to talk to a SAMBA server ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers/2
>>>>> Hi Ed,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've never gotten around to actually installing SAMBA here, 
>>>>> (downloaded many times in anticipation) but from what I have noticed 
>>>>> whilst reading the various lists/groups, one definitely does have to 
>>>>> have a SAMBA client on OS/2-eCS before one can talk to a SAMBA 
>>>>> server running on Linux/WIN.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a scan through the ecomstation.support dot networking group on 
>>>>> news.ecomstation dot com! ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
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