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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
763.1 Netdrive
77____________
78
79You must have NetDrive 2.2.1 or newer installed prior to installation of this
80package. If you want to use 64bit file API, you should install 2.3 or newer
81version of NetDrive. The installation is semi-automatic and consists of the
82following:
83
84 - ndpsmb.dll installation :
85 Run instpl.cmd from this package. It will place all files to the netdrive
86 plugin directory.
87
883.2 EVFS
89________
90
91 - ndpsmb.dll installation :
92 Put ndpsmb.dll into x:\ecs\dll (where x: is your bootdrive)
93
94
954. NDPSMB.DLL
96_____________
97
98
994.1. Usage with Netdrive
100______________________
101
102NetDrive Samba plugin is used according to general NetDrive usage rules. Read
103the NetDrive documentation for more information. The SMB/CIFS resources could
104be mounted either using command line nd.exe utility or WPS ndpm.exe utility of
105NetDrive.
106
107The NetDrive Samba plugin parameters are:
108
109 workgroup - the name of workgroup to connect to.
110 server - the name of server to connect to.
111 share - the name of server resource (share) to connect to.
112 user - the name of user to login under.
113 password - the password of selected user.
114 master - the name of 'master' server or workgroup, used to get the list
115 of workgroups when the concrete workgroup and server not
116 specified.
117 masterttype - 0 if 'master' is the name of master server, 1 if 'master' is
118 the name of master workgroup.
119 easupport - 1 to support eCS (OS/2) Extended Attributes, 0 to not support it
120
121To mount the exact server's share one need to specify both 'server' and
122'share' parameters, the other parameters are optional. The root path of
123server's share will be mounted to the mounting path.
124
125If one want to access all server shares, then only the 'server', not the 'share'
126parameter, should be specified,the other parameters are optional. The list of
127server shares will be mounted to the mounting path.
128
129If one want to access all servers within the workgroup, then only the 'workgroup',
130not the 'server' parameter, should be specified, the other parameters are
131optional. The list of servers within the specified workgroup will be mounted to
132the mounting path.
133
134If one want to access all available workgroups within one master browser
135within the network, then only the 'master', not the 'workgroup' nor the 'server' parameter,
136should be specified, the other parameters are optional. The list of workgroups
137will be mounted to the mounting path. The 'master' workgroup can be any known
138workgroup in the net. The 'master' server should be the master browser for
139workgroup[s].
140
141By default the 'guest' user with blank password is used to access selected
142resources. If you get access denied (5) errors, try to specify another user
143and password combination.
144
1454.2 Usage with EVFS
146___________________
147
148eComStation comes with a GUI program named EVFSGUI which is even more feature
149rich than the Netdrive GUI. Refer to the documentaion that comes with eCS.
150
1515. Debugging
152____________
153
154To produce a logfile please add an empty file called ndpsmb.dbg into the
155root drive.
156
157The logfile is placed to your LOGFILES env path, if available. If the
158LOGFILES environment variable is missing, the logfile is placed into the
159Netdrive directory. The logfile is called log.ndpsmb for the Netdrive part
160and log.smbc for the Samba part.
161
162
1636. Changelog
164____________
165
166 v1.0 beta3:
167 - changelog created
168 - fixed a bug with several network interfaces on one system
169 - fixed a bug with broken cmd.exe builtin commands
170 - fixed a bug with wrong dates of new and modified files
171 - fixed a bunch of other bugs which are too small to remember ;)
172 - smbcd.exe compiled against old tcp/ip stack interface
173
174 v1.0 beta4:
175 - fixed errors on write to eCs shares
176 - more fixes for wrong dates of files
177
178 v1.0 beta5:
179 - added file locking
180 - added 64bit file IO (when working with NDFS 2.3+)
181 - moved to 3.0.9 samba code
182
183 v1.0 beta6:
184 - fixed set attribute bug introduced in beta 5
185 - implemented setnewfilesize function. It may work not on all CIFS servers.
186 - added automatic smbcd.exe starting if not started when connecting to CIFS share
187 - added 'logfile' and 'loglevel' options to ndpsmb
188
189 v1.0 beta7:
190 - moved to libc06b4.dll libc.
191
192 v1.0 beta8:
193 - moved back to libc custom build.
194 - added EA support
195 - a bunch of bugs fixed
196
197 v1.0 beta9:
198 - added EA support for DosOpen which was forgotten in beta8
199
200 v1.0 beta10:
201 - caching of EA size after file find request
202 - moved to libc06b5.dll libc
203
204 v1.0 beta11:
205 - moved to libc06r1.dll libc
206
207 v1.0 beta12:
208 - NdpRsrcQueryFSAllocate rewritten
209 - moved to libc06.dll from GA2 release
210
211 v1.0 beta13, the lucky one:
212 - moved to libc061.dll from CSD1 release
213
214 v1.0 beta14:
215 - moved to libc custom build
216
217 v1.0 GA:
218 - changelog was not updated
219
220 v1.5.0 alpha1:
221 - smbdc.exe was implemented within ndpsmb.dll
222 - a lot of other changes
223
224 v1.5.0 beta1:
225 - logging feature rewritten
226 - fixed free disk space
227 - added more return codes in the mount part (for evfsgui)
228
229 v1.5.0 beta2:
230 - update to Samba 3.0.35 client code
231
232 v1.5.0 beta3:
233 - update to Samba 3.0.36 client code
234 - codepage fix for system running
235 non IBM-850 codepages (Ticket #100)
236
237 v1.5.0 beta4:
238 - update to Samba 3.0.37 client code
239 - codepage fix for Ticket #68
240
241 v1.5.0:
242 - Fix memory leak in EA code
243 - Ticket #111
244 - Remove unused MEMLEN, LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL token
245 (Compatibility warning: These tokens must also be removed from older
246 *.ndc *.evp and volumes.cfg files in order to restore connections
247 with the new plugin properly)
248 - added logging feature for samba messages
249
250v1.5.1:
251 - Fix crashes on quadcore machines
252
253v1.5.2:
254 - Fix help files
255
256v1.5.3:
257 - Fix timestamp problem
258
259v2.0.0 :
260 - added dir caching
261
262v2.1.0 alpha1 :
263 - moved to samba 3.3 source base
264 - new merge of 2.0 code and 1.6 code
265
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