Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:11:41 -0400 From: madodel From: madodel Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Samba client plugin ndpsmb Version 1.5beta2-3.0.35-20090709 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel The Netdrive Samba plugin has been updated to 1.5 beta 2 (based upon Samba Version 3.0.35 library code) on the Netlabs.org FTP server. http://us3.samba.org/samba/ Samba is a free implementation of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running Windows, Mac OS X ,Unix or eComStation (OS/2). There is a netlabs http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml based effort to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for file sharing and printing for eCS (OS/2) in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components. The version 1.5 beta plugin has various improvements over the final 1.0 plugin released earlier: - It is much faster. - It is more stable than 1.0 plugin. - It requires less shared memory (therefore improving overall system stability). - All current development efforts go into the 1.5 version. It is strongly recommended to use the 1.5 beta version of the plugin and not the 1.0 plugin anymore. Numerous problems and bugs that were already fixed in the 1.5 beta version are still present in the 1.0 version plugin. Samba Netdrive plugin 1.5 beta2: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ndpsmb-1.5beta2-3.0.35-20090709.zip Later to be moved to: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/client/ndpsmb-1.5beta2-3.0.35-20090709.zip Samba for eCS (OS/2) Homepage: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba Additional Samba for eCS (OS/2) resources: http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/samba/index.html Samba Homepage: http://www.samba.org/ You can report bugs using the TRAC system at http://svn.netlabs.org/samba" Mailinglist: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.samba.user Requires the Netdrive for OS/2 virtual file system driver: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/ -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.]