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Skriven 2012-04-30 08:25:37 av Andreas Kohl
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?
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From: Andreas Kohl <ak120@arcor.de>

Victor Bien schrieb:
> 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.
>

Quite interesting:
<http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=956>

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