Hi Paul,

to follow your advice re meaningful subject lines I am
re-posting the following (fortunately short) message:

> > I have a real stupid question.  What is SAMBA?
>
> Doesn't sound like a *stupid* question to me! Samba is a
> freeware package created by Andrew Tridgell in Australia,
> which comprises of server and client software that deals
> with the SMB (server message block) protocol which is the
> protocol used by Microsofts LanManager services.
>
> Running the samba server (smbd) on an HP 3000 makes it
> possible to "mount" server directories on the PC as just
> another drive and then access the files from the PC.
>
> It is similar to the HP Resouce Sharing product but has
> the adavatange that it is (a) free and (b) uses the regular
> MPE (HFS) file system instead of special "container files"
> like Resource Sharing does. If setup properly you might use
> Windows Write to view the file D:\SYS\PUB\HPSWINFO and in
> fact view HPSWINFO.PUB.SYS from your 3000...
>
> Hope this helps. Find more info at ftp://ftp.3k.com/POSIX/

By the way, did you mention -20 deg Celcius or Fahrenheit?  ;-)

Regards, Lars "brrrr" Appel

([log in to unmask] - only porting for myself, not for grc.hp.com)