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Skriven 2012-04-29 08:25:02 av Victor Bien
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?
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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.
>

Well it's several months down the track and I'm back on this 
project/issues/problems.  I've downloaded and installed the eCS Samba 
WPI packs.  The doco says the setup is all done and I don't have to 
worry about the manual installation section.  However, now that the WPIs 
are installed, protocol.ini and config.sys suitably edited and the 
computer restarted it's obviously not complete.  There is no REXX setup 
facility, there is no smbd process running, there is no samba.conf 
except an old one back in 2000 when I tried to have a go then.

   What's missing?  The documentation is very sparse - not surprising 
since all of it is a volunteers effort.  There is one spot to download 4 
zip files but when you click on the fourth one the page that comes up is 
blank!!??

   So I'm back to the point why I did not follow through trying to get 
Samba working on OS/2 back in 2000.

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