Subj : Accessing SHARES on DOS P
To   : Mike Powell
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Sat Apr 02 2005 01:04 pm

Hi Mike,

> > However, OS/2 and samba no longer get along,
> It sounds like you have run into the issue relating to the latest 
> version of Samba (V3 ???), you need to back-level Samba 1 version 
> to get it working again. I hear there is a fix for this in the 
> pipeline but I have no details as I do not run Samba myself...

 MP> Back-level?  Do you mean downgrade?  

Yes, go back to the previous stable release of Samba. I would be surprised if 
the security issue was not able to be resolved there...

 MP> Well, my plan was that the linux box would have extra CD-ROMs, as well as
 MP> be able to mount CD images, so that I could finally have all of my SIMTEL
 MP> and other old DOS shareware CDs online at once.

Ok, still have a Pioneer DRM602 6 Disc Changer that I ran under OS/2 for many 
years. As soon as HD space became cheap I copied the CD's the HD and 
disconnected the CD changer. A much beter solution as 6 CD's are less than 4GB 
of HD space these days...

 MP> Will OS/2 easily mount a CD-image?  If I have to put all the CD 
 MP> and HD drives in  the same box, I was
 MP> thinking it might get a little crowded.  ;-)

Of course it can, the issue as I see it is simply the "cost" of having a CD 
Changer in use. The delay in changing Discs can cause all sorts of issues if 2 
people want files from different CD's at the same time. Thats why S/W like 
Maximus specifically handles this by staging the CD data on the HD so no impact 
occurs. If you network the resource, the client can't determine the relevance 
to CD changing and so "protect" the usage issue. 

Maximus V2 (and earlier) had this problem, but by the time Scott Dudley 
released V3 he had it solved very nicely...


 MP> Actually, I have not even tried accessing the remote shares under DOS.
 MP> It is not even working correctly under OS/2.  That is, under  MP> 
Connections, I am not able to see the shares on the DOS box 
 MP> (although I can see the DOS box itself).  I'd suspect the DOS box,  MP> 
except that my Win98SE box is not having
 MP> any problems accessing the shares.

Its the DOS box, it has "issues" matching the full criteria required for a true 
SMB environment. Windows boxes are aware of this and can work around them, but 
you can stil run into a few oddities...


 MP> I will further explore both of these options.  The only reason I wanted to
 MP> try the DOS way was that it would require less down time, as the box in
 MP> question is currently running DOS (it is the current home of the BBS), and
 MP> would not require conversion when the BBS migrated to the OS/2 machine.

Most people I know who have done this have migrated DOS machines to OS/2 by 
simply running the DOS system in an OS/2 DOS box. Then they convert the BBS 
stuff to OS/2 slowly and over time. 

Cheers............pk.


--- Maximus/2 3.01
 * Origin: Another Good Point About OS/2 (3:772/1.10)

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