[Simh] SIMH text from VMS

[Robert Thomas]

We make extensive use of SAMBA on VMS to enable easy file transfer and other
features with Windows and Linux PC's.  The latest version that runs on Alpha
and Itanium is works with few issues.  There are some limitations with the
earlier versions that run on VMS, but once one has them running the software
is solid and transfers text files easily, although one needs care with
respect file formats.  For reliable binary file transfers we use the readily
available zip and unzip utilities from the Freeware disks.

 

The nice feature is that parts of the VMS file system can be mapped to a
Windows share.

 

There is a port of SAMBA to VMS on VAX that worked on VMS V7.3.

 

The following is from SAMBA BB:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-vms/2010-January/001947.html

 

The following was posted by John Malmberg in a Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/9OXrlinIq-o

 

INTRO1.

What is SAMBA?

     SAMBA is an open source suite of programs for communicating
     over the Microsoft NETBIOS protocols on TCP/IP.  It was
     developed originally by Andrew Tridgell who is still active
     in guiding SAMBA's evolution.

     For more information about SAMBA, see  <http://www.samba.org/>
HTTP://WWW.SAMBA.ORG

     Licensing for SAMBA is covered under the GNU Public License.

     The SAMBA-VMS home page is currently at:
      <http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html>
http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html

     It is maintained by Eckart Meyer, who is responsible for
     the majority of the SAMBA-VMS port.

     With out the hard work of Eckart Meyer, there probably
     would not be a SAMBA-VMS port.

     A port of SAMBA 2.0.6 is available on the OpenVMS Freeware
     CD-ROM.  It's location is:

      <http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/SAMBA/>
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/SAMBA/

     It requires a helper library:

      <http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/FRONTPORT/>
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/FRONTPORT/

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Robert F. Thomas



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