About SAMBA for OS/2 and eCS
Samba is a SMB/CIFS protocols file and print sharing server/client set originaly made for UNIX world to cooperate with corresponding Windows and OS/2 servers or clients.
OS/2 has native implementation of SMB/CIFS server/client set - IBM LAN Manager and IBM Peer. These products haven't been updated for a long time and have some compatibility problems with modern Windows SMB/CIFS implementations.

This package is the OS/2 port of Samba 3.x client made as the plugin to NetDrive - a well known virtual file system for OS/2. OS/2 SAMBA client provides seamles access to SMB/CIFS file shares over your network using TCP/IP as the underlying transport protocol.
At the moment NetDrive is required for our plugin. In the future we will probably provide a Samba-only version of NetDrive for free but it won't be possible to use other NetDrive plugins with it. We will announce that before we release the final release of our plugin.

The OS/2 Samba client consists of two modules:

    * ndpsmb.dll: the NetDrive plugin itself.
    * smbcd.exe: the Samba client daemon, which actually processes the requests from ndpsmb.dll.

For installation of Samba NetDrive plugin for OS/2 and eCS please read the README.TXT file in the distribution.

Support - Please post your reports about SAMBA Client for OS/2 and eCS to the OS/2 newsgroup comp.os.os2.beta. You can use a newsreader like Mozilla, ProNews or the Google-Groups.
We will not answer direct emails with questions!

If you think that you found a bug you might consult our SAMBA xTracker. If your problem is not yet listed please file a new bug!

License - Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can download the full OS/2 sourcecode including NetDrive plugin from our CVS respository.

Samba for OS/2 is just possible because netlabs.org hired nickk for porting it. For us this is also an experiment and we really hope that the OS/2 and eCS community honors this effort. Please read our document about our open source philosophy and support us with sponsoring units if you can afford it.

We plan to provide a SAMBA Server for OS/2 and eCS as well but this highly depends on the support of the OS/2 and eCS community. We cannot afford that alone.

http://samba.netlabs.org/