Samba for eComStation (OS/2)

​Samba is a free implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running Windows, Mac OS, Unix or ​eComStation (OS/2). The goal of this project is to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for eCS (OS/2) in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.

The eComStation (OS/2) server port is very fast and stable, and although still incomplete, very usable for daily work. It can be used to perform the following tasks:

• share files among eCS (OS/2), Windows, Mac OS and Unix machines, including extended attribute support.
• share printers among eCS (OS/2), Windows, Mac OS and Unix machines.

Please, consider the pages of this wiki to be your online documentation for Samba for eCS (OS/2)!

Official Releases

Release date	Type	Component	Version	Based upon	Package	Description
08th May 2009	Print client	Port driver	1.0	Samba 3.0.34	​ZIP	Required to print to shared printers or CIFS/SMB based printer servers
04th May 2008	Client part 1	EVFS	1.001	-	​Link	Remote file system, comes with ​eComStation
15th Dec. 2008	Client part 1	Netdrive	3.1.1	-	​Link	Remote file system, shareware by ​BluePrint Software Works
11th May 2009	Client part 2	Plugin for EVFS/Netdrive	1.0	Samba 3.0.34	​ZIP	Required to access shared files, deprecated
23th Oct. 2009	Client part 2	Plugin for EVFS/Netdrive	1.5beta4	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required to access shared files, comes with ​eComStation
01th Sept. 2009	Client part 3	Client GUI (EVFSGUI)	1.3.7	-	​Link	Setup and manage connections, comes with ​eComStation
24th Dec. 2009	Client part 3	Client GUI (EVFSGUI)	2.0	-	​ZIP	Setup and manage connections
23th Oct. 2009	Client part 4	Commandline utilities	1.0.3	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required by EVFSGUI Ver. 2.x
24th Dec. 2009	Client parts 2+3+4	Installation package	2.0	Samba 3.0.37	​WPI	Required to access shared files, easy installation
28th Dec. 2009	Server	Installation package	1.0.3	Samba 3.0.37	​WPI	Required to share files and printers, easy installation
28th Dec. 2009	Server	Server core files	1.0.3	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required to share files and printers, stable
05th. Jan. 2010	Server	Server core files	1.1 beta5	Samba 3.3.9	​ZIP	Required to share files and printers, experimental, see Frequently Asked Questions

Interim Releases

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

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

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 (no visual difference to beta4)

Note for the knitpickers: This is no fake, but a hybrid Samba 3.0.36/37 running in order to work around an issue found in recent 3.0.37 nmbd.exe builds, which is under investigation.


Samba Client GUI (EVFSGUI) Version 2.0 beta1