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is to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for eCS (OS/2) in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.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
30th. Mar. 2010	Print client	Port driver	1.0.1	Samba 3.3.12	​ZIP	Required to print to shared printers or CIFS/SMB based printer servers, requires ​gcc442.dll
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
06th. July 2010	Client part 2	Plugin for EVFS/Netdrive	1.5.2 GA	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required to access shared files, supercedes ​eComStation 2.0
06th. July 2010	Client part 2	Plugin for EVFS/Netdrive	1.6 Beta 1	Samba 3.3.13	​ZIP	Required to access shared files
01th. Sept. 2009	Client part 3	Client GUI (EVFSGUI)	1.3.7	-	​Link	Setup and manage connections, deprecated.
23th. April 2010	Client part 3	Client GUI (EVFSGUI)	2.0.5 GA	Plugin 1.5.0 GA	​ZIP	Setup and manage connections, comes with ​eComStation
08th. June 2010	Client part 4	Commandline utilities	1.0.5	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required by EVFSGUI Ver. 2.x
07th. July 2010	Client part 4	Commandline utilities	1.1.0	Samba 3.3.13	​ZIP	Required by EVFSGUI Ver. 2.x
29th. May 2010	Client parts 2+3+4	Installation package	2.0.5	Samba 3.0.37	​WPI	Required to access shared files, easy installation
19th. Mar. 2010	Server	Installation package	1.0.4	Samba 3.0.37	​WPI	Required to share files and printers, easy installation, requires ​gcc442.dll
06 th. July 2010	Server	Server core files	1.0.5	Samba 3.0.37	​ZIP	Required to share files and printers, stable, requires ​gcc442.dll
21th. Mar. 2010	Server	Server core files	1.1 RC2	Samba 3.3.12	​ZIP	Required to share files and printers, requires ​gcc442.dll

14th. Mar. 2010	Server	SSCC	1.0.0	-	​ZIP	GUI Tool for server configuration and installation, also found in WPI 1.0.4
14th. Mar. 2010	Server	SMBUsers	0.9.8	-	​ZIP	GUI Tool for user and group administration, also found in WPI 1.0.4
06th. Mar. 2010	Server	SMBMon	0.9.26	-	​ZIP	GUI Tool for Samba status monitoring, also found in WPI 1.0.4

Note: The Samba Client WPI that comes with eComStation 2.0 GA seems to be on 2.0.4 level.

Interim Releases

Herwig Bauernfeind provides interim releases and test builds 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.x/4.x scratchpad
• Samba for eCS (OS/2) code maintenance

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

• Silvan Scherrer (aka diver), providing most recent core fixes and additions
• Herwig Bauernfeind (aka HerwigB), current code maintenance, EVFSGUI 2.x, testing
• Paul Smedley (aka Smedles), provided Samba 3.0.24 port, groundwork for current port
• Yuri Dario (aka Paperino), provided workable locking code and other important fixes
• Alex Taylor (aka AlexT), provided historic EVFSGUI 1.x, fixes for 2.x
• Nikolay Kolosov (aka nickk), provided historic Samba 3.0.9 port
• 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