[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - SAMBA on the Field Test Release of OpenVMS 8.1 on the HP Intel Itanium system (fwd)

[Fodor Zsuzsa]

---------- Továbbított levél ----------
Dátum: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:35:43 -0400
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>,
        RFT at asthomas.com
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - SAMBA on the Field Test Release of OpenVMS 
8.1 on the HP Intel Itanium system

Dear Distribution lists,

HA - I bet you thought "No mail from Sue this week she is at HP World",
the hotel has high speed internet access and I can get at my
distribution lists on the VMS systems, so you have no luck there.   The
Pearl about Samba is the orginal message but I thought you might like 
to
see more of the details in Robs ok message as well.

Warm Regards,
Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert F. Thomas [mailto:rft at asthomas.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:07 PM
To: Skonetski, Susan; Malmberg, John (OpenVMS)
Subject: RE: Rob could I use this as an OpenVMS Pearl?


Of course you have our permission.

We have been pleased with the source code compatibility of OpenVMS 
on
the Itanium.

I am getting somewhat set in my ways and have ported some very old 
tools
from DECUS.  The CSWING program from 1993 SIG tapes compiled and 
runs.
There was one minor issue in that the C header library was missing one
of the old headers.  We found it on one of our Alpha systems and 
placed
it in the CSWING source area and changed the include call out for the
header. There were copious information and warning messages during
compilation, but the program runs without any problems.

We are very pleased since CSWING does some undocumented things 
that were
not officially supported.

We work on the systems from home and the firewall is very tight, so our
only access is via FTP and TELNET to the OpenVMS system.  CSWING 
makes
our life much easier in providing support and working from home,
especially using PT525.  We will eventually port SWIM, since our
firewall limits the number of incoming connections.

Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
A. S. Thomas, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Skonetski, Susan [mailto:susan.skonetski at hp.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:25 PM
To: Malmberg, John (OpenVMS); rft at asthomas.com
Subject: Rob could I use this as an OpenVMS Pearl?


This was posted on the SAMBA-VMS mailing list, and is available on
public web archives.

-John


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: SAMBA on OpenVMS Itanium
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:08:43 -0400
From: Robert F. Thomas <rft at asthomas.com>
To: samba-vms at samba.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert F. Thomas [mailto:rft at asthomas.com]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 12:47 PM
To: 'COLLOT Jean-Yves'
Subject: SAMBA on OpenVMS Itanium

JY:

We have been able to able to successfully compile, link and run SAMBA 
on
the Field Test Release of OpenVMS 8.1 on the HP Intel Itanium system.
There were some error messages compiling one of the print spooling
support modules, but we don't use that functionality since all of our
printers are network printers.

We made no changes to source or command files.

Based on our usage, the system is fully functional with generally
excellent performance (still much slower than smb networking between
windows when running some applications, but much faster than on 
Alpha
OpenVMS systems).

We control the system using SWAT and have encountered no problems.

Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
A. S. Thomas, Inc.




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