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 /