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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: [jpr@jpr.com: Re: Simple stupid shell script]
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 06:38:30 GMT
Message-ID: <20040503063830.GB10272@sco.com> 
References: <20040501233710.A8890@egps.egps.com> <m9udnaT1UJxK5wnd4p2dnA@comcast.com> <20040502112705.A3599@egps.egps.com> <6vSdnTf5m9zRoQjdRVn-gQ@comcast.com> 

Brian K. White wrote:

> There is another product called AFPS (Advanced File & Print Sharing) I'm not
> sure but I think you have to pay for it, and I don't know how supported it
> is, and I don't know if it supports the ability to mount a windows share,
> but I do know it's not SMB, it's Netware. To use it you have to install the
> netware client on the pc's, which means also installing ipx/spx on them.
> I would think the only time you'd ever want to use it is if you already had
> an all netware network. If you have a bunch of pc's and the unix server,
> then I don't recommend installing netware on all the pc's just to use this
> when two good smb solutions exist.

I can't comment on the rest of this (I don't use any PC mounting
software, neither SMB nor Netware nor NFS).  But I do know for sure that
AFPS is an SMB implementation, not Netware.  Perhaps you're confusing it
with the Netware client filesystem that is also included in OSR5, and
the Netware server software that SCO used to sell.

AFPS is actually a port of some (old) version of the Microsoft SMB
software out of some old version of Windows NT (port done by AT&T and
bounced around to various vendors since then -- I think Lucent currently
holds what's left of the ball).  AFPS is not free (neither open source
nor free licenses).  It also does not include a client mounter.

OSR5 itself comes with an SMB client mounter (LMC: LAN Manager Client),
but it's only compatible with rather ancient SMB servers.  It certainly
does not work with Windows 2000, XP or 2003 SMB shares.  (It's actually
quite possible that it might work with Samba, since Samba is highly
configurable -- I wouldn't be surprised if it can be provide a share
configured to speak a really archaic form of the SMB protocol...)

>Bela<

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