_____
Hello All OS/2 Users,

I use OS/2 Warp (fixpack 15, kernel 14.104a_W4). I also run an OpenBSD
v3.6 file server with samba-2.2.12 package. The samba server works very
well with Windows NT4 and 2000 Pro. I can see all the directories that
are exported by the samba server on the desktop of both Windows
machines. I would like to have the same functionality on my OS/2
desktop. Is it possible to make this work with TVFS (Toronto Virtual
File System) and NFS (for OS/2) without using IBM's peer-to-peer
package? I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago.
I could mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window,
not via the desktop.
--
Regards / JCH

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:29:23 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, jch
wrote:

> Is it possible to make this work with TVFS (Toronto Virtual
> File System) and NFS (for OS/2)

No.

> without using IBM's peer-to-peer
> package?

Why? The IBM Peer worked fine with Samba 2.2.x last time I used it (Samba 2.2 is
rather out of date and several years old).

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:29:23 UTC, jch wrote:

> _____
> Hello All OS/2 Users,
>
> I use OS/2 Warp (fixpack 15, kernel 14.104a_W4). I also run an OpenBSD
> v3.6 file server with samba-2.2.12 package. The samba server works very
> well with Windows NT4 and 2000 Pro. I can see all the directories that
> are exported by the samba server on the desktop of both Windows
> machines. I would like to have the same functionality on my OS/2
> desktop. Is it possible to make this work with TVFS (Toronto Virtual
> File System) and NFS (for OS/2) without using IBM's peer-to-peer
> package? I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago.
> I could mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window,
> not via the desktop.

I guess the question is...why would you want to, when Peer works fine
with Samba?

I run two Samba servers here, and both are accessed from OS/2 machines.
I do use a rather more up to date version of Samba - 3.0.28a right now.

--
Bob Eager

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:12:28 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Bob Eager"
wrote:

> I run two Samba servers here, and both are accessed from OS/2 machines.
> I do use a rather more up to date version of Samba - 3.0.28a right now.

I always found Samba 2.x cooperated far better with OS/2 than any of the 3.x
series. They broke huge chunks of it with 3.x and have still not fixed it all
(it's still not possible to mount an OS/2 JFS drive as a Samba share on Linux
for example).

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:24:40 UTC, "Trevor Hemsley"
wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:12:28 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Bob Eager"
> wrote:
>
> > I run two Samba servers here, and both are accessed from OS/2 machines.
> > I do use a rather more up to date version of Samba - 3.0.28a right now.
>
> I always found Samba 2.x cooperated far better with OS/2 than any of the 3.x
> series. They broke huge chunks of it with 3.x and have still not fixed it all
> (it's still not possible to mount an OS/2 JFS drive as a Samba share on Linux
> for example).

That's the 'other way round', of course.

But I just tried it here, and mounted a JFS drive with no trouble from a
Samba 3.0.28a system. The OS/2 system is not running Samba.

The client is, however, a FreeBSD machine, not Linux.

--
Bob Eager

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:29:23 UTC, jch wrote:

> I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago.
> I could mount a samba share, but only access it via a command
> window, not via the desktop.

Are you sure you were using the right package(s)? The standard
installation requires NetDrive and the Samba Client plugin:

http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.co...es/ndfs310.zip

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/clie...0-20080529.ZIP

You can use NetDrive to create one or more drives, and attach your
shares to them however you wish. When I first got it I used the
GUI to create my drives and attach the shares. Now that I'm
familiar with it, I find it's easier to do that using a couple
of simple scripts.

BTW... although NetDrive is shareware, it's free for use with the
SMB Client plugin.


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jch wrote:
> I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago.
> I could mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window,
> not via the desktop.
_____
Thanks for all your quick responses re my samba question. I shall
install IBM Peer, and see how it works with the current version i run
under OpenBSD. Am i correct in saying that EAs are not handled with
samba-2.2.12 ? I read somewhere that there is a parameter that must be
set in the samba config file to support EAs, but likely in a more recent
samba package. To upgrade to a current samba version i would have to
upgrade the file server to the most recent OpenBSD release. That is
quite a bit of work.
--
Regards / JCH

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:24:40 -0500, Trevor Hemsley wrote:

>
>
>On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:12:28 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Bob Eager"
> wrote:
>
>> I run two Samba servers here, and both are accessed from OS/2 machines.
>> I do use a rather more up to date version of Samba - 3.0.28a right now.
>
>I always found Samba 2.x cooperated far better with OS/2 than any of the 3.x
>series. They broke huge chunks of it with 3.x and have still not fixed it all
>(it's still not possible to mount an OS/2 JFS drive as a Samba share on Linux
>for example).
>
>--
>Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
>Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

It is possible, at least on some distributions (I only have experience with
Ubuntu 8.04 here). I had set up a test Ubuntu system to play with and had
problems connecting to an eCs 1.2 share, so I did some looking around and
found the following:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/112839

At the end of the exchange is the command I used, and, lo and behold, it
worked.


--
Len Small
lnsmall@verizon.net

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:25:17 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Leonard N Small"
wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:24:40 -0500, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> >
> >On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:12:28 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Bob Eager"
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I run two Samba servers here, and both are accessed from OS/2 machines.
> >> I do use a rather more up to date version of Samba - 3.0.28a right now.
> >
> >I always found Samba 2.x cooperated far better with OS/2 than any of the 3.x
> >series. They broke huge chunks of it with 3.x and have still not fixed it all
> >(it's still not possible to mount an OS/2 JFS drive as a Samba share on Linux
> >for example).
> >
> >--
> >Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
> >Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com
>
> It is possible, at least on some distributions (I only have experience with
> Ubuntu 8.04 here). I had set up a test Ubuntu system to play with and had
> problems connecting to an eCs 1.2 share, so I did some looking around and
> found the following:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/112839
>
> At the end of the exchange is the command I used, and, lo and behold, it
> worked.

Well done! After all these years, I can finally share my 600GB RAID array across
to my linux box.

Just in case that link goes dead, here is what I used to gain access from Linux
to OS/2.

mount -t cifs -o username=trevor,servern=OS2BOX,sec=lanman //OS2BOX/OS2_I
/mnt/temp/

This was from Centos 5.2 running Samba (and client) 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 to OS/2
Warp Server for eBusiness.

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

jch wrote:
> jch wrote:
>> I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago. I could
>> mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window, not via
>> the desktop.
> _____
> Thanks for all your quick responses re my samba question. I shall
> install IBM Peer, and see how it works with the current version i run
> under OpenBSD.
_____
Installed IBM Peer by running on IBM's distribution Warp 4 CD 84H3109
..../IMG/IBMPEER/PEERRMT.EXE. Gave computer suitable NAME, and added
DOMAINNAME that is the same as on the OpenBSD samba server. Must have
made an error somewhere. Cannot log on at all, no matter what. MPTS
shows correct protocols TCPIP and NETBIOS for NIC. Absolutely nothing
works. Removed Peer for now.

Hoping you folks can help a bit. There is a link to a setup procedure
at MIT by Frank R. Field:
http://www.mit.edu/activities/os2/peer/WARPPEER.HTM. In this document
he says that "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" protocol is also needed. Can anyone
confirm this please?
--
Regards / JCH

jch wrote:
> jch wrote:
>> I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago. I could
>> mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window, not via
>> the desktop.
> _____

> and see how it works with the current version i run
> under OpenBSD.
_____
Some further notes: The system simply has not asked me to configure a
User ID/Password combination. I see in the docs the command "NET
PASSWORD" to reset passwords, but that is of no use. I tried UID=GUEST,
PSW=guest, and that let me log onto the LAN. Will do some more work on
this Peer package tomorrow. Local time is 00:01:07.
--
Regards / JCH

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:08:17 UTC, jch wrote:

> jch wrote:
> > jch wrote:
> >> I have tried the samba client package for OS/2 some time ago. I could
> >> mount a samba share, but only access it via a command window, not via
> >> the desktop.
> > _____
> > Thanks for all your quick responses re my samba question. I shall
> > install IBM Peer, and see how it works with the current version i run
> > under OpenBSD.
> _____
> Installed IBM Peer by running on IBM's distribution Warp 4 CD 84H3109
> .../IMG/IBMPEER/PEERRMT.EXE. Gave computer suitable NAME, and added
> DOMAINNAME that is the same as on the OpenBSD samba server. Must have
> made an error somewhere. Cannot log on at all, no matter what. MPTS
> shows correct protocols TCPIP and NETBIOS for NIC. Absolutely nothing
> works. Removed Peer for now.
>
> Hoping you folks can help a bit. There is a link to a setup procedure
> at MIT by Frank R. Field:
> http://www.mit.edu/activities/os2/peer/WARPPEER.HTM. In this document
> he says that "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" protocol is also needed. Can anyone
> confirm this please?

It is needed. It is the only protocol that Samba (or modern Windows, by
default) suppot. 'NETBIOS' on its own is not needed.
--
Bob Eager

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:01:19 GMT, jch wrote:

> Some further notes: The system simply has not asked me to configure a
> User ID/Password combination. I see in the docs the command "NET
> PASSWORD" to reset passwords, but that is of no use. I tried UID=GUEST,
> PSW=guest, and that let me log onto the LAN.

The default admin. logon is USERID/PASSWORD. You need to logon using that,
then use \MUGLIB\UPMACCTS to create a new admin. user (and whatever other
users you require), then delete the default logon once you are satisfied
your new one works.

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:36:59 UTC, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:01:19 GMT, jch wrote:
>
> > Some further notes: The system simply has not asked me to configure a
> > User ID/Password combination. I see in the docs the command "NET
> > PASSWORD" to reset passwords, but that is of no use. I tried UID=GUEST,
> > PSW=guest, and that let me log onto the LAN.
>
> The default admin. logon is USERID/PASSWORD. You need to logon using that,
> then use \MUGLIB\UPMACCTS to create a new admin. user (and whatever other
> users you require), then delete the default logon once you are satisfied
> your new one works.

WRT this issue, I have a question.

I forgot (shame) my userid/password couple, which I set upon
installing eCS, so that for now I'm stuck with FTP if I want to
exchange files to/from another machine.

FTP is way more comfortable than flash drive swapping (does someone
remember when we were floppy-disk jockeys?), but a shared directory
would be better, so I'm searching how to recover my ID and password.
Do I have to reinstall (well I should do this the same, to bring eCS
from RC3 to RC5)?

Thanks.
Mentore

On 08/03/08 11:35 am Mentore Siesto wrote:

> I forgot (shame) my userid/password couple, which I set upon
> installing eCS, so that for now I'm stuck with FTP if I want to
> exchange files to/from another machine.
>
> FTP is way more comfortable than flash drive swapping (does someone
> remember when we were floppy-disk jockeys?), but a shared directory
> would be better, so I'm searching how to recover my ID and password.
> Do I have to reinstall (well I should do this the same, to bring eCS
> from RC3 to RC5)?


If you can boot from a maintenance partition or installation disks, you
could copy the file \IBMLAN\INSTALL\NET.ACC back in place of
\IBMLAN\ACCOUNTS\NET.ACC. You will then start afresh with the default
USERID and PASSWORD

Perce

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:01:19 GMT, jch wrote:
>
>> Some further notes: The system simply has not asked me to configure a
>> User ID/Password combination. I see in the docs the command "NET
>> PASSWORD" to reset passwords, but that is of no use. I tried UID=GUEST,
>> PSW=guest, and that let me log onto the LAN.
>
> The default admin. logon is USERID/PASSWORD. You need to logon using that,
> then use \MUGLIB\UPMACCTS to create a new admin. user (and whatever other
> users you require), then delete the default logon once you are satisfied
> your new one works.
_____
Paul,

Good stuff! Worked, and got me into the local workstation. I read
through a lot of the system INF documents, but could not find anything
about default UID and PSW info. I have a copy of a book "OS/2 Warp
Unleashed" from Sams Publishing, dated 1998. On page 878, Chapter 17,
2nd paragraph i says that the default admin id = USERID. What is not
mentioned anywhere in the book is the password. Where is the UID and
PSW combination documented? Now i need to tackle the LAN itself.

Thanks again for your help.
--
Regards / JCH

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:35:10 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, "Mentore Siesto"
wrote:

> I'm searching how to recover my ID and password.
> Do I have to reinstall (well I should do this the same, to bring eCS
> from RC3 to RC5)?

Boot using Alt+F1 to a command prompt then copy \ibmlan\install\net.acc to
\ibmlan\accounts\net.acc then reboot and logon as userid/password

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:48:43 GMT, jch wrote:

> I read through a lot of the system INF documents, but could not find
> anything about default UID and PSW info. I have a copy of a book "OS/2 Warp
> Unleashed" from Sams Publishing, dated 1998. On page 878, Chapter 17,
> 2nd paragraph i says that the default admin id = USERID. What is not
> mentioned anywhere in the book is the password. Where is the UID and
> PSW combination documented?

No idea I'm afraid. It is just one of the things that I know from somewhere
or other.

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:48:43 GMT, jch wrote:
>
>> I read through a lot of the system INF documents, but could not find
>> anything about default UID and PSW info. I have a copy of a book "OS/2 Warp
>> Unleashed" from Sams Publishing, dated 1998. On page 878, Chapter 17,
>> 2nd paragraph i says that the default admin id = USERID. What is not
>> mentioned anywhere in the book is the password. Where is the UID and
>> PSW combination documented?
>
> No idea I'm afraid. It is just one of the things that I know from somewhere
> or other.
_____
OK. Making slow progress.

Using TCPIP and NETBIOS protocols bound to the NIC, here is what i have:
1. In the File and print client resource browser folder - shows the
workstation i am using, an NT4 system with printer share, another OS/2
computer in the basement. I do not see the OpenBSD samba server anywhere.
2. When i open the domain icon in LAN Server Administration, after a
delay of about 15 seconds i get a domain window, and User Account icon.
When i try to open that folder, i get another folder with a message
that says "NET 2453: The domain controller for this domain can not be
found.". How do i solve this?

Is there a decent "How-To" anywhere i can follow to set up shares and
the like?
--
Regards / JCH

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:30:56 UTC, jch wrote:

> OK. Making slow progress.
>
> Using TCPIP and NETBIOS protocols bound to the NIC, here is what i have:
> 1. In the File and print client resource browser folder - shows the
> workstation i am using, an NT4 system with printer share, another OS/2
> computer in the basement. I do not see the OpenBSD samba server anywhere.
> 2. When i open the domain icon in LAN Server Administration, after a
> delay of about 15 seconds i get a domain window, and User Account icon.
> When i try to open that folder, i get another folder with a message
> that says "NET 2453: The domain controller for this domain can not be
> found.". How do i solve this?

That's because you don't have a central domain controller (e.g. LAN
Server) for authentication. So you don't use the domain part. Also,
logging on, you may need:

logon userid /password /v:l

(that's "verify locally").

It's worth modifying \IBMLAN\IBMLAN.INI to make that the default; under
[requester], ensure that wrkheuristic 37 is set to 1 (long line of
digits).

That's unless you set Samba up to be a domain controller (unlikely, but
some people do (I did!)).

View the shares etc. using the 'Sharing and Connecting' object. The
domain object asks the non-existent domain controller for a share list.

--
Bob Eager