OK - I made the transition and found one bug (reported to HP already) and one medium level difference between the two versions of Samba. The bug is that you _MUST_ have the statement "follow symlinks = Yes" in the [global] section. This has been confirmed as a bug in the base samba version by Jeremy Allison and I gave HP the reference to his confirmation. The medium level difference is that JYC handled VFC files properly and HP CIFS doesn't handle them. I worked around this by converting the VFC text files to Sequential Stream via the convert/fdl utility. Performance wise HP CIFS is about twice as fast as for file IO and even faster for directories with large numbers of files. In addition, once I hooked to our Windows AD domain connections have been seamless. Mike Ober.
________________________________ From: Aravinda Guzzar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:58 PM To: Michael Ober Cc: samba-vms@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8 Hi Mike, yes there are lots of benefits migrating from 2.2.8 to the latest version of CIFS on VMS. It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with the latest OSes. There is support for VMS specific file formats viz. Varaible Length formats, StreamLF and supports ODS2 disks also. It is been qualified on the clusters also. So you will get the benefit of the clusters. Please note that you need to have the latest CRTL patches. before you migrate and as a suggestion please test the software on your test hardwares, and convince yourself before migrating to the production. Regards Aravind On 5/9/08, Michael Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any benefits to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS? Thanks, Mike Ober. PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Aravinda (Views expressed here are my personal opinion ONLY) PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html