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1 Samba Client Plugin for eCS (OS/2)
2 Version _VERSION_
3 Build _BUILD_
4 __________________________________
5
6CONTENTS
7________
8
9 1. Introduction
10 2. License
11 3. Installation
12 3.1 Netdrive
13 3.2 EVFS
14 4. NDPSMB.DLL usage
15 4.1 Netdrive
16 4.2 EVFS
17 5. Debugging
18 6. Changelog
19
20
211. Introduction
22_______________
23
24Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client suite
25originally made for the UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and
26eCS (OS/2) servers or clients. eCS (OS/2) has a native implementation of SMB/CIFS
27server/client set - IBM LAN Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven't been
28updated for a long time and have some compatibility problems with modern
29Windows SMB/CIFS implementations.
30
31This package is the eCS (OS/2) port of Samba client made as the plugin for
32
33- NetDrive for eCS (OS/2) - a well known virtual file system for eCS (OS/2) or
34- EVFS - the eComStation Virtual Filesystem for SMB.
35
36eCS (OS/2) Samba client provides seamless access to SMB/CIFS file shares over
37your network using TCP/IP as the underlying transport protocol.
38
39The eCS (OS/2) Samba client consists of one module:
40 ndpsmb.dll - the NetDrive/EVFS plugin itself.
41
42Releases prior to version 1.5.0 had a second module which is now deprecated:
43 smbcd.exe - the Samba client daemon, which actually processes the requests
44 from ndpsmb.dll
45
462. License
47__________
48
49Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can get
50the full sourcecode from our SVN repository, please refer to the Samba for
51eCS (OS/2) Homepage for details about downloading the source.
52
53The NetDrive plugin is also available with full sourcecode.
54
55So if you are using our plugin we kindly ask you to support netlabs.org.
56Please refer to the Samba for eCS (OS/2) Homepage to learn how you can do
57that!
58
59
60Links:
61
62Samba for eCS (OS/2) Homepage: http://samba.netlabs.org/
63NetDrive Homepage: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/
64Samba Homepage: http://www.samba.org/
65
66
673. Installation
68_______________
69
70The plugin needs the klibc runtime named libc06*.dll (the innotek gcc runtime
71DLL) somewhere in your LIBPATH, if it is not there already (It comes with any
72recent eComStation release).
73The plugin needs the 32 bit TCP/IP stack. This stack comes with all eComStation
74releases. If you have still the 16 bit stack, please search the net for the 32 bit stack.
75
76
773.1 Netdrive
78____________
79
80You must have NetDrive 2.2.1 or newer installed prior to installation of this
81package. If you want to use 64bit file API, you should install 2.3 or newer
82version of NetDrive. The installation is semi-automatic and consists of the
83following:
84
85 - ndpsmb.dll installation :
86 Run instpl.cmd from this package. It will place all files to the netdrive
87 plugin directory.
88
893.2 EVFS
90________
91
92 - ndpsmb.dll installation :
93 Put ndpsmb.dll into x:\ecs\dll (where x: is your bootdrive)
94
95
964. NDPSMB.DLL
97_____________
98
99
1004.1. Usage with Netdrive
101______________________
102
103NetDrive Samba plugin is used according to general NetDrive usage rules. Read
104the NetDrive documentation for more information. The SMB/CIFS resources could
105be mounted either using command line nd.exe utility or WPS ndpm.exe utility of
106NetDrive.
107
108The NetDrive Samba plugin parameters are:
109
110 workgroup - the name of workgroup to connect to.
111 server - the name of server to connect to.
112 share - the name of server resource (share) to connect to.
113 user - the name of user to login under.
114 password - the password of selected user.
115 master - the name of 'master' server or workgroup, used to get the list
116 of workgroups when the concrete workgroup and server not
117 specified.
118 masterttype - 0 if 'master' is the name of master server, 1 if 'master' is
119 the name of master workgroup.
120 easupport - 1 to support eCS (OS/2) Extended Attributes, 0 to not support it
121
122To mount the exact server's share one need to specify both 'server' and
123'share' parameters, the other parameters are optional. The root path of
124server's share will be mounted to the mounting path.
125
126If one want to access all server shares, then only the 'server', not the 'share'
127parameter, should be specified,the other parameters are optional. The list of
128server shares will be mounted to the mounting path.
129
130If one want to access all servers within the workgroup, then only the 'workgroup',
131not the 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other parameters are
132optional. The list of servers within the specified workgroup will be mounted to
133the mounting path.
134
135If one want to access all available workgroups within one master browser
136within the network, then only the 'master', not the 'workgroup' nor the 'server' parameter,
137should be specified, the other parameters are optional. The list of workgroups
138will be mounted to the mounting path. The 'master' workgroup can be any known
139workgroup in the net. The 'master' server should be the master browser for
140workgroup[s].
141
142By default the 'guest' user with blank password is used to access selected
143resources. If you get access denied errors, try to specify another user
144and password combination.
145
1464.2 Usage with EVFS
147___________________
148
149eComStation comes with a GUI program named EVFSGUI which is even more feature
150rich than the Netdrive GUI. Refer to the documentaion that comes with eCS.
151
1525. Debugging
153____________
154
155To produce a logfile please add an empty file called ndpsmb.dbg into the
156root drive.
157
158The logfile is placed to your LOGFILES env path, if available. If the
159LOGFILES environment variable is missing, the logfile is placed into the
160Netdrive directory. The logfile is called log.ndpsmb for the Netdrive part
161and log.smbc for the Samba part.
162
163
1646. Changelog
165____________
166
167 v1.0 beta3:
168 - changelog created
169 - fixed a bug with several network interfaces on one system
170 - fixed a bug with broken cmd.exe builtin commands
171 - fixed a bug with wrong dates of new and modified files
172 - fixed a bunch of other bugs which are too small to remember ;)
173 - smbcd.exe compiled against old tcp/ip stack interface
174
175 v1.0 beta4:
176 - fixed errors on write to eCs shares
177 - more fixes for wrong dates of files
178
179 v1.0 beta5:
180 - added file locking
181 - added 64bit file IO (when working with NDFS 2.3+)
182 - moved to 3.0.9 samba code
183
184 v1.0 beta6:
185 - fixed set attribute bug introduced in beta 5
186 - implemented setnewfilesize function. It may work not on all CIFS servers.
187 - added automatic smbcd.exe starting if not started when connecting to CIFS share
188 - added 'logfile' and 'loglevel' options to ndpsmb
189
190 v1.0 beta7:
191 - moved to libc06b4.dll libc.
192
193 v1.0 beta8:
194 - moved back to libc custom build.
195 - added EA support
196 - a bunch of bugs fixed
197
198 v1.0 beta9:
199 - added EA support for DosOpen which was forgotten in beta8
200
201 v1.0 beta10:
202 - caching of EA size after file find request
203 - moved to libc06b5.dll libc
204
205 v1.0 beta11:
206 - moved to libc06r1.dll libc
207
208 v1.0 beta12:
209 - NdpRsrcQueryFSAllocate rewritten
210 - moved to libc06.dll from GA2 release
211
212 v1.0 beta13, the lucky one:
213 - moved to libc061.dll from CSD1 release
214
215 v1.0 beta14:
216 - moved to libc custom build
217
218 v1.0 GA:
219 - changelog was not updated
220
221 v1.5.0 alpha1:
222 - smbdc.exe was implemented within ndpsmb.dll
223 - a lot of other changes
224
225 v1.5.0 beta1:
226 - logging feature rewritten
227 - fixed free disk space
228 - added more return codes in the mount part (for evfsgui)
229
230 v1.5.0 beta2:
231 - update to Samba 3.0.35 client code
232
233 v1.5.0 beta3:
234 - update to Samba 3.0.36 client code
235 - codepage fix for system running
236 non IBM-850 codepages (Ticket #100)
237
238 v1.5.0 beta4:
239 - update to Samba 3.0.37 client code
240 - codepage fix for Ticket #68
241
242 v1.5.0:
243 - Fix memory leak in EA code
244 - Ticket #111
245 - Remove unused MEMLEN, LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL token
246 (Compatibility warning: These tokens must also be removed from older
247 *.ndc *.evp and volumes.cfg files in order to restore connections
248 with the new plugin properly)
249 - added logging feature for samba messages
250
251v1.5.1
252 - Fix crashes on quadcore machines
253
254v1.5.2
255 - Fix help files
256
257v1.5.3
258 - Fix timestamp problem
259
260v2.0.0 beta1
261 - added dir caching
262
263v2.0.0 beta2
264 - read problem of small files fixed
265 - delete cache of changed files
266
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