Quoted from the HP announcement:
We are pleased to announce the availability of the HP OpenVMS Common
Internet File System (CIFS) IA64 "evaluation" kit.
The HP OpenVMS Common Internet File System (CIFS) provides users with
seamless file and print interoperability between OpenVMS and
Windows-based clients. The OpenVMS file and print services evaluation
kit is based on the Samba.org Open Source/Free Software suite which
provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
The kit has been developed to run on OpenVMS Itanium platforms. It is
similar to implementations that are in place today supporting Linux and
UNIX operating environments. An "Alpha" evaluation kit will follow in
the near future. For download access to the OpenVMS Itanium evaluation
kit and access to current CIFS information please utilize our CIFS home
page found at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/CIFS_for_Samba.html .
For direct access to the evaluation kit download please refer to
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/network/cifs_register.html. You will be asked
to register for this free evaluation kit.
Please note that this is an evaluation kit and not meant for
"production" implementations. For information on the availability of
"production" versions of CIFS please refer to the OpenVMS road maps
found at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/roadmap/openvms_roadmaps.htm .
As always we appreciate your timely feed back via our web site process.
Please feel free to provide us advice on the products ease of
implementation, its documentation, the products functionality and where
new features may be warranted
End quote.
As this is a technical audience:
Please send feedback about the evaluation kit to the e-mail address
provided with it as that will get the attention of all the engineers
working on the product. Sending it to my e-mail address or just posting
here may delay getting the issues addressed.
This kit is based on SAMBA 3.0.10 and is basically the minimum amount of
work to make a functional SAMBA server for ODS-5 volumes so that HP can
get feedback on what functionality should get priority.
My personal e-mail address is aggressively spam filtered, but the filter
does use SMTP rejects when a message is not delivered to me. It will
not accept e-mail from known DHCP assigned e-mail addresses.
-John
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