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Skriven 2012-04-30 18:24:44 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 30/04/2012 4:25 PM, Andreas Kohl wrote:
> 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>

That was interesting reading but it doesn't help me get anywhere.  I 
failed to make clear that I want the Samba server (I'm not so interested 
in the client) working so I can connect to my OS/2 4.52 from Windows 7. 
  I feel sure that when I get it working correctly I'll get connection 
because I have an NAS which has a firmware Linux and it appears as a 
drive in Win 7.  The basic Samba is ported from Linux.

Up to now I've worked happily away with XP talking to my OS/2 repository 
machine over netbeui.  I tried installing netbeui on Win 7 and can't do 
it.  (The Win 7 I'm talking about is the superb 64 bit version).  I can 
use Filezilla to access files on the OS/2 talking to the OS/2 plain FTP 
server but that's not the same as network access (on the XP the OS/2 
folders and files act just like its local disk); and I want access to 
the printer attached to OS/2.  From the above I know I can use a print 
server but the trouble with that is I get more clutter in my Study.

I'm led to believe that eCS has got a basic server working (at least 
that is what the page http://svn.netlabs.org/samba says).  Trouble is 
when I've done "everything" from that page it's not complete.  So I'm 
lost.  Where do I turn to?  I intend to try quite hard to get success 
along this approach before giving up if I can't get anywhere.


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