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Skriven 2012-05-02 10:53:48 av Victor Bien
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52 achieved!
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From: Victor Bien <me@privacy.net>

On 6/11/2011 2:18 AM, Doug Bissett wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 09:56:19 UTC, Victor Bien<me@privacy.net>  wrote:
>
>>    I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for years.
 I access the volumes and print on the attached printer.  Now I want to move to
Win7.  Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I have to do I in the
Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage with working out how to retain
that connection if possible?
>>
>>    XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it.  Netbeui is not
available for Win7.  I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to work.
>
> Apparently (I haven't tried it), you can install the NETBEUI that
> works with XP, to Win7.
>
> SAMBA does work, but I have never found a combination of parts that
> actually work reliably. All you really need is the client part (EVFS
> or NETDRIVE) to connect to a windows machine. SAMBA itself is only
> needed if you wish to connect Win7 to an eCS machine.
>
>>    Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try seems
it will blow out.
>>
>>    Anyone here can offer some clues?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Victor Bien
>
> It is probably a good idea to learn about SAMBA, since modern versions
> of windows simply don't want to work with the older PEER networking,
> and MS seems to be going out of their way to make sure that it doesn't
> work. The other main reason to change is to get support for files that
> are larger than 2 GB.
>

eCS's Samba server package installed  fairly easily as the page claimed 
(http://svn.netlabs.org/samba).  After slightly further editing of 
config.sys (to put in two LIBPATH spots where the Samba packge is 
installed) and rebooting I got connection!

This is confirmed for all three Windows computers: XP SP3, Vista laptop 
and the new 64 bit Windows 7 I'm working up to replace the XP.

Connecting to the OS/2 disks/volumes is 100%.  I test copied a folder 
with over 2000 files occupying about 25 MB and it came across in a jiff.

A big accolade from me to those who put that all together, in WPI form 
as well, which made installation indeed as simple as in Windows or the 
Mac.  A WPS configuration folder is created and one can complete the 
installation and make further adjustments with GUI "widgets".  The 
installation gives one the option of creating a new Samba configuration 
from scratch or porting over one's IBM LAN Manager settings.  I chose 
the latter.

I'll be thinking and suggesting how the above page may be improved 
although in my case I fell over badly due to rushing and being mentally 
scattered: trying to do multiple things, not computer related where the 
computer system can't be off-line for long...

There is one problem to be solved: I can't print to the printers which 
are Samba shared.  When I do a test print you can see a brief Samba 
message popup saying various things are happening but no job appears in 
the OS/2 printer window; the printer light blinks hopefully but nothing 
prints.

Because of thi I might still have to go back to the IBM LAN manager for 
a while longer.  That's not hard to do - just copy the IBM LAN version 
of config.sys to be the active one and the same with IBMCOM\protocol.ini 
and reboot.

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