The Netdrive Samba plugin has been updated to 1.5 beta (based upon Samba Version 3.0.34 library code) on the Netlabs.org FTP server.
http://us3.samba.org/samba/ Samba is a free implementation of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running Windows, Mac OS X ,Unix or eComStation (OS/2). There is a  netlabs http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml based effort to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for file sharing and printing for eCS (OS/2) in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components.

The version 1.5 beta plugin has various improvements over the final 1.0 plugin released earlier:
 - It is much faster.
 - It is more stable than 1.0 plugin.
 - It requires less shared memory (therefore improving overall system stability).
 - All current development efforts go into the 1.5 version.

It is strongly recommended to use the 1.5 beta version of the plugin and not the 1.0 plugin anymore. Numerous problems and bugs that were already fixed in the 1.5 beta version are still present in the 1.0 version plugin.

Samba Netdrive plugin 1.5 beta: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ndpsmb-1.5beta-3.0.34-20090511.zip
Later to be moved to: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/client/ndpsmb-1.5beta-3.0.34-20090511.zip

Samba for eCS (OS/2) Homepage: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba
Additional Samba  for eCS (OS/2) resources: http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/samba/index.html
Samba Homepage: http://www.samba.org/

You can report bugs using the TRAC system at http://svn.netlabs.org/samba"

Mailinglist: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.samba.user

Requires the Netdrive for OS/2 virtual file system driver: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/

Cheers,
Herwig Bauernfeind

Source. OS2VOICE.org

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