** Reply to message from "Thomas Garson" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:16:41 -0700
> I know this is the wrong place to post this, but it's the only OS/2 list
> I still keep up with, and I know many of you guys are still very active
> OS/2ers, while I am down to two system still online, one of which is in
> my office at work, which totally annoys anyone else who tries to use it
> (I love that part).
>
> Anyhow, I have been periodically testing Linux/Samba servers with Warp
> 4.52 that is installed in a VirtualBox on my home Linux system. I
> recently updated my Suse 10.1 home server with the latest stable version
> of Samba available from Novell and, holy cow batman, it seems to be back
> to working with OS/2!
Thomas, the alternative I've been using is the Samba port that Paul Smedley has
compiled. That works quite well in place of the peer client included with the
MCP 4.52 version as well as the latest eCS versions. I haven't gotten it to
play nice with the Warp Server version (ACP 4.52) but that's a non issue to me
since I can use the Linux box as the domain server. FYI.
> For a test, I copied a directory tree that contains over 6000 files that
> contain over 220 MB of data from my venerable, but stable,
> OpenLinux/Samba2 server at work over my VPN to the Suse 10.1/Samba3
> server at home, all through the virtual Warp 4.52 system, using the WPS.
> This hasn't been possible for two or three years, at least. So far
> (several hours of tinkering does not constitute a thorough test, but
> it's very encouraging) , no files have magically disappeared, or
> reappeared on the OS/2 desktop that have been save to or copied from,
> that server.
>
> The version of Samba I am working with is 3.028043178710, according to
> WebMin.
>
> The newer, beta version, of Samba, which is loaded on a Suse 11 beta3
> test server (also at home), seems to have an authentication problem with
> my OS/2 client, but I don't have the debugging skills to do much digging.
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