Samba Server for eComStation (OS/2)

Official Releases

Samba Client for printing

• 08th May, 2009​Samba (CIFS/SMB) portdriver for eCS (OS/2) Version 1.0
  

Samba Client for file shares

• 11th May, 2009 ​Samba Client Version 1.0 for eCS (OS/2), based upon official Samba Version 3.0.34 (final 1.0 release, considered deprecated)
  
• 23th October, 2009 ​Samba Client Version 1.5 beta4 for eCS (OS/2), based upon official Samba Version 3.0.37 (Updated client code to 3.0.37, fixes for Ticket #68 and Ticket #100).
• 30th October, 2009 ​Samba Client GUI for EVFS and Netdrive (EVFSGUI) Version 2.0 beta3 This is a fully drag and drop enabled GUI to manage SMB/CIFS connections (heavily extended successor to EVFSGUI 1.3.x, which comes with current eCS 2.0rcs). Works both with EVFS and/or Netdrive!
  Beta3 has the intermittent GUI blocking issue found in beta2 fixed. No other changes.
• 23th October, 2009 ​Samba Client Utilities Version 1.0.3 based upon official Samba Version 3.0.37 These are several command line utilities, which only came with the server package in the past. They have been updated to Samba Version 3.0.37, have fixes for Ticket #68 and Ticket #100 and were recompiled to use libc063.dll (instead of libc064x.dll as the server does). These utilities are required to run Samba Client GUI (EVFSGUI) 2.0 beta1 or better successfully.

Samba Server

• 14th July, 2009 ​Samba Server Version 1.0.1 for eCS (OS/2), based upon official Samba Version 3.0.35
  
• 14th July, 2009 ​Samba Server Version 1.0.1 for eCS (OS/2), based upon official Samba Version 3.0.35 (WarpIN-Installation package)
  
• 06th October, 2009 ​Samba Server Version 1.1beta3 for eCS (OS/2), based upon official Samba Version 3.3.8
  

Note: Samba 3.3.x builds currently come as drop-in replacements for a previous installation of any recent 3.0.x build.

Note: You cannot go back from 3.3.x to 3.0.x easily, as the internal format of the tdb files has been changed between 3.0.x and 3.3.x. If you intend to go back, please backup all tdb files in \lock and \private directories before updating and restore from backup before going back.

Note: While 3.3.x binaries have been tested for several weeks now and seem to work well in general, bear in mind that 3.3.x is still beta software and work in progress and therefore not ready for production use.

Note: Currently 3.3.x offers exactly one benefit over 3.0.x: Ticket 59 is gone. GUI-Tools and scripts work with 3.3.x, but only make little use of new features found in Samba 3.3.x.

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Here is our ever growing collection of useful Samba for eCS (OS/2) Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.

More Information

• How to setup Samba
• Useful Samba scripts and utilities
• Samba was tested with these clients
• Currently known Samba issues (open Tickets)
• Samba Development Progress
• Samba links collection
• Samba 3.2/3.3/3.4 scratchpad

Interim Releases

Herwig Bauernfeind provides interim releases of Samba server, clients GUI tools and scripts on his ​Samba for eCS (OS/2) page.

Reporting Bugs

Reporting bugs and requesting new features is done through the ticket system. You can view existing tickets, add comments to them and create new tickets using the corresponding buttons at the top of every page. If you want to submit a new bug or request a feature, please use the Search function first to make sure there is no ticket for this task already created.

Anonymous access to the ticket system has been restricted due to multiple attacks of stupid spammers we've been suffering from during the last month. In order to create a new ticket or comment the existing one, you need to login with your Netlabs login id. If you do not have a login id, you can request one at ​http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml. We are sorry for inconvenience, but at the present time this is the only way to avoid extremely annoying spam.

Mailinglist

• ​http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.samba.user

Credits

• Paul Smedley (aka Smedles)
• Yuri Dario (aka Paperino)
• Silvan Scherrer (aka diver)
• Herwig Bauernfeind (aka HerwigB)
• Alex Taylor (aka AlexT)
• Nikolay Kolosov (aka nickk)
• and all we missed

Thanks for testing!

Screenshots

Samba Client GUI (EVFSGUI) Version 2.0 beta3

Samba Client GUI (EVFSGUI) Version 2.0 beta1