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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The nice feature is that parts of the VMS file system can be mapped to a Windows share.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a port of SAMBA to VMS on VAX that worked on VMS V7.3.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The following is from SAMBA BB: <a href="https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-vms/2010-January/001947.html">https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-vms/2010-January/001947.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The following was posted by John Malmberg in a Google Group: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/9OXrlinIq-o">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/9OXrlinIq-o</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>INTRO1.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>What is SAMBA?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> SAMBA is an open source suite of programs for communicating<br> over the Microsoft NETBIOS protocols on TCP/IP. It was<br> developed originally by Andrew Tridgell who is still active<br> in guiding SAMBA's evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> For more information about SAMBA, see<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.samba.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6611CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>HTTP://WWW.SAMBA.ORG</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> Licensing for SAMBA is covered under the GNU Public License.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> The SAMBA-VMS home page is currently at:<br> <a href="http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6611CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> It is maintained by Eckart Meyer, who is responsible for<br> the majority of the SAMBA-VMS port.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> With out the hard work of Eckart Meyer, there probably<br> would not be a SAMBA-VMS port.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> A port of SAMBA 2.0.6 is available on the OpenVMS Freeware<br> CD-ROM. It's location is:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <a href="http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/SAMBA/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6611CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/SAMBA/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> It requires a helper library:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> <a href="http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/FRONTPORT/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#6611CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/FREEWARE50/FRONTPORT/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Robert F. 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