As it happens, HP DID make some kind of announcement at HPWorld - Harry
Stirling announced that Samba/iX will be supported , and I presume this
means real dollars will be allocated to "complete" the port - well done
Lars, and thank you, HP.

Lots of other nice announcements, too. But maybe someone from HP should
enlighten the List.

Regards

Neil Harvey





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From: Michael L Gueterman
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 8/27/97 12:34 AM
Subject:Re: HP 3000 file servers

Somebody else feel free to jump in here!

HP sold (sells?!?) a product on the 3000 called
'Resource Sharing'.  It is very similar to Samba
in that it provides file and print sharing using the
SMB protocol (if memory serves, prior to 5.0,
it used a proprietary protocol, not standard SMB).
Unlike Samba, it held the files as standard MPE
files, and used a directory structure on the server
to map the MPE filenames to the PC directory/filenames.
There were a couple of big problems with this setup:
1.      Unless you used a MPE utility program, you never
        knew what MPE file mapped to what PC file.
2.      There was a limit of how many files you could
        put into a MPE group, so that necessitated using
        multiple "shares" in some cases.
3.      Restoring files was a major pain in the butt.

  I'm also not positive, but I believe the HP-UX counterpart
of Resource Sharing has been discontinued.  That makes
sense since there are several direct alternatives such as
Samba and NFS available.

Quest (and possibly others) have an NFS product for the
3000 that may suit your needs.  I don't know the specifics
of it, but I'm sure the speed is probably better when performing
comparable operations with Samba/iX.

As time goes on, Samba/iX *will* become a better product.  One
has to keep in mind that Lars did the initial port about 9 - 10 months
ago.  I'm hoping HP will make some kind of announcement about
Samba/iX at HP World.  As it stands now, it is an unsupported, beta.
If it is to grow, it needs some form of "official" support, either from
HP or a third party.

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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From:  Frank Letts[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Tuesday, August 26, 1997 4:51 PM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject:  [HP3000-L] HP 3000 file servers

Does anyone in the world use an HP3000 as a file server?  How would it
be done (with out reference to POSIX)?  Didn't hp sell them as
that?  Please respond - were dying over here.

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