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 ---------- 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 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.editcorp.com voice: (888) 858-EDIT -or- (509) 943-5108 fax: (509) 946-1170 -- ---------- 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. [log in to unmask]