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SAMBA In our recent BayWarp meeting at Jim's house, we tried to make SAMBA work. We had success with the client to access both shares from Windows XP, Windows 7 and OS/2 File and Print. The SAMBA Client built into eCS 2.0 works just fine for this, although it can be a bit confusing to use. Unfortuntately, we didn't know about Herwig Bauernfeind's Samba for eComStation (OS/2) webpage. The next step is to see if we can get the server to work. Just installing is a bit of a problem. First, here is the web page for SAMBA. http://samba.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml Even finding SAMBA server is not simple. The links on the above page are broken, so we wind up browsing the Netlabs ftp site. ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/ There we find two packages of interest: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/server/rxlib4smb.wpi ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/server/samba-1-1-0.wpi But the first link, the supporting REXX libraries for SAMBA server, are scripted incorrectly. They will not install correctly unless you change the installation directory to be the root. There are six packages included in REXX libraries for SAMBA server. The first one, VX-REXX Runtime, is correct and greyed out. For each of the remaining five packages, change the path to the root of the installation drive. Two of the files installed conflict with files on the eCS 2.0 system. Once the REXX libraries are installed, the server can be installed. The installer warns about setting UNIXROOT to E:\MPTN. But the installation is successful, and a GUI runs that asks for a root password, some basic configuration information and sets up root and guest accounts. The Default user should be set up later. A Samba Server folder is set up on the desktop. The GUI is running without error. Open a command prompt, and go to the directory where you installed SAMBA. Run SMB.cmd start . Possible errors at this point: The TMPDIR environment variable is not set in Config.Sys. The c:\mptn\etc\master.passwd file does not exist. Run sscc /install to create it. Then it tells you to create a user named Default, too. After addressing these errors, my Samba server is running and a Samba client on another machine is able to see my Samba server shares.