Fellow Listers

Here are four compelling reasons to get Samba/iX running on your
HP3000.(Well one really)

If you co.-exist with NT, and you regularly move files from HP3000 to
NT, Samba/iX will do this twice as fast as FTP:--

Moving 3.4MB from HP3000 to NT
Samba           Trial 1: 683kb/s                Trial 2: 684kb/s
FTP             Trial 1: 298kb/s                Trial 2: 344kb/s

Curiously, during the 'get' trials (from NT to HP3000), FTP outperformed
SAMBA by about 50%.

In HP3000 to UNIX (HP9000), ftp consistently outperformed Samba by about
50%, but then Samba was also running on the HP9000 end.
In these trials, both systems were "quiet".

To be able to "mount" the HP3000 as a share in a windows network is a
luxury that we used to pay for dearly, and now it's free.

I take this opportunity to congratulate Lars (and all who helped) with
this superb effort. Much value has been added to my favourite computing
platform of all time :)

Regards

Neil


Trial Details Follow.

Samba to NT Trial 1:

/run smbclnt.samba.sys;info="\\aegean\software password -U administrator
-c 'put /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M samba'"
Added interface ip=196.22.0.32 bcast=196.22.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Thu Feb 13 21:51:04 1997
Timezone is UTC+2.0
Domain=[BANKMED] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0]
putting file /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M of size 3432744 bytes as \samba
(683.583 kb/s
) (average 683.583 kb/s)
End Run


Samba to NT Trial 2:

/run smbclnt.samba.sys;info="\\aegean\software password -U administrator
-c 'put /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M samba'"
Added interface ip=196.22.0.32 bcast=196.22.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Thu Feb 13 21:51:15 1997
Timezone is UTC+2.0
Domain=[BANKMED] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0]
putting file /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M of size 3432744 bytes as \samba
(684.28 kb/s)
 (average 684.28 kb/s)
End Run
/

FTP to NT Trial 1:

/ftp aegean
File Transfer Protocol [A0008008] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
220 aegean Microsoft FTP Service (Version 3.0).
Connected to aegean.bankmed.co.za (172.23.112.1).  (FTPINFO 40)
Name(mgr): administrator password
331 Password required for administrator.
230 User administrator logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M samba
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for samba.
226 Transfer complete.
3432744 bytes sent in 11.24 seconds (298.22 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> exit



FTP to NT Trial 2:

/ftp aegean
File Transfer Protocol [A0008008] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
220 aegean Microsoft FTP Service (Version 3.0).
Connected to aegean.bankmed.co.za (172.23.112.1).  (FTPINFO 40)
Name(mgr): administrator password
331 Password required for administrator.
230 User administrator logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put /SAMBA/PUB/samba05p.M samba
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for samba.
226 Transfer complete.
3432744 bytes sent in 9.73 seconds (344.46 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> exit
/