>   If you install the free Samba server on your UNIX system then you can
 > share files to Warp Conect or Merlin systems without 
 > any extra cost.  Warp
 > Connect and Merlin come with all software needed to 
 DN> communicate with Samba
 > servers.

 DN> Which version are you running? Have you tried the OS/2 samba server?

  I have run many versions on Linux.  I have never run it on OS/2 because
I've had Warp Connect or the LAN Server requestors.

 >   I use Samba all the time and have found it to be 
 > fast and reliable.  All
 > reports that I have read say that Samba is faster than NFS.

 DN> It is, but one downer I found - as implied by my 
 DN> questions above - is that the server is somewhat broken 
 DN> under OS/2 and needs to be restarted on each connect 
 DN> (seems like the fork() doesn't). IIRC, it could not be 
 DN> set up to run under inetd, which would have solved that 
 DN> problem nicely. The client, however, works great.

 DN> I'm curious to find out if that problem has yet been 
 DN> fixed since I haven't hunted around for a newer version 
 DN> for a while. This was 1.93.

   I doubt that there will be much done to it.  Warp Connect and now the
SMB support in Merlin decrease the demand for Samba/2 to about 0.

 DN> It'd be *very* nice of there was a samba client based IFS, too.

   Why?  What's wrong with the Warp Connect NETWKSTA.200 IFS?


  cya


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