On Tue, 04 Jun 2013, Sean Dennis wrote to James Coyle:

-=> James Coyle wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 JC> Would a VPC/OS2 image have the ability to detect/use a USB drive?  I
 JC> think that would even be easier for me than messing with SMB - and
 JC> maybe easier to do on the OS/2 side too?

 SD> It depends on the drivers in the OS.  There are newer drivers for
 SD> OS/2  for USB but I have not used them.

i haven't tried any USB stuff on my eCS box but it seems that everything is
detected as far as the chipset goes... that box is an old Gateway PIII
800mhz...

 JC> I'd also need working TCP of course to test/port all of Internet
 JC> servers.

 SD> It should work just fine.  However, using SMB with Windows Vista
 SD> and  above is a bitch, even with modifications made to OS/2.  I
 SD> don't use SMB  enough to justify setting up Samba under OS/2 yet.

FWIW: eCS has samba access built-in already... i've not used it yes because
i'm loath to open the netbeui/netbios ports (137,138,139) between my
protected and less-protected networks...

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