Hi everyone,

I am coping files from my Samba/Solaris (UNIX) fileserver to my Samba/iX
fileserver. We have had 20-30 users on our Samba/Solaris fileserver for about
a year now.  So I am able to make a pretty good comparison of functionality
between the two Samba fileservers.  Our intention is to have the same
functionality on the MPE/iX version of Samba.

I am also thinking that the HP3000/928 will totally out perform the Sun Spark
10.  However it seems that the two machines are about even. That’s acceptable
for now, we may be able to do some tuning down the road.  Maybe upgrading to
5.5 will help? I here POSIX performance has been improved in 5.5

The file name limitation has been one major difference in functionality,
however we have over come most of the name problems.

In the Windows/Samba/Solaris (UNIX) world you can move files from machine to
machine, open and close them, copy or rename. As long as the contents of a
file hasn’t been changed the modification date stays the same. On our
Samba/Solaris fileserver we have files with dates going back to the early
90’s. These files have been access from time-to-time but not modified. So the
modify dates  are correct,  we can count on it.

Now when we move them to the Samba/iX fileserver all the dates are reset to
the current system date. Being an MPE person I think that makes sense because
it is a new file as far as  MPE knows.

 This is not acceptable. Modification dates must be maintained.  Half the
solution is to use the "tar" command. Then untar the files on  the MPE box.
The problem with that is the file names. The tar on MPE will skip some files
because of invalid MPE/POSIX characters.  The solution to that is to fix the
filenames before doing the tar on the Solaris box.  So after all that we
finally have the files on the MPE box with the right dates. Anyone know
another way to retain olddates though network transfers?

Cheers,

Michael "I think I can dance" Anderson.

Systems Programmer
TIW Corporation.