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#106
I wonder whether it would make sense to start a petition to Innotek to opensource their former OS/2 software NOW.

Specifically I am thinking about the technology to produce wrappers for certain Windows software (aka the Odin Custom build called Innotek Runtime plus the build system to create a wrapped package from a genuine Windows Java etc.).

I don't think that a wrapped OpenOffice is very interesting, and a wrapped Flash 8, 9 is unworkable anyway (both for technical and legal reasons). The same is probably true for Acrobat Reader (but who knows?).

However, the Innotek Runtime has advanced features, that are not present in the public Odin tree, these might be of interest, and a newer Java 1.4.2 does not seem to be completely unrealistic using the Innotek wrappers, too.

While I am not calling for a real Odin renaissance, it would be sad, if that technology was lost for OS/2.

An additional issue would be the Innotek Fontengine, which probably would be quite interesting, too.

I doubt that any of these would have a negative impact on Innoteks or Suns commercial interests these days.

Just my 2 cents, what do you think about that?

Kind regards,
Herwig B.
#107
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.02.04, 08:48:03
Hi,
glad it worked out (and sorry for the inconveniance).

klipp, in case you did not notice I reworked http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/wiki during the last days.

Every contribution is very welcome and I will gladly accept a reworked cookbook and integrate it into the Wiki.

Kind regards,
Herwig
#108
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.02.03, 12:00:07
Hi klipp,

> I can not add users ( I can add them, but that causes the server to no longer be recognized).
Something comes to my mind regarding addition of users: For a short time (2-3 days) there was a user*.zip package on my Samba page that produced a bad master.passwd under certain circumstances (Symptom: Empty GID field in master.passwd).

In case that is the problem, get latest user*.zip from my Samba page, remove offending users with userdelpm.exe and recreate them with useraddpm.exe

Kind regards,
herwigb
#109
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.02.03, 11:54:19
Hi Paul,
> I really hate doing documentation!
I know and that's why I try to jump in here  ;)

> and of course Herwig has done a great job with all his Rexx utils and also keeping the wiki up to date.
Thanks for your kind words, I appreciate that (and I apologize for nagging you sometimes  ;) )

Kind regards,
herwigb
#110
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.02.02, 10:44:58
You are welcome!

Glad it seems to work now BUT from the output of findsmb I see a big flaw in your Setup:

The WORKGROUP value MUST be the same on ALL machines regardless if they run Windows, OS/2, *nix, regardless if the server is Samba, IBM Peer, WseB.

You can find this hint on almost every readme coming with whatever distribution of Samba.

You are operating several workgroups in one subnet, which also can be done, but which does not make sense at all for half a dozen of machines and is just a way asking for problems.
#111
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.02.01, 08:58:30
I think you do not have a Samba problem (anymore) but a TCP/IP problem. For me (somebody correct me if I am wrong) it looks like if your routing doesn't work correctly, also name resolution might be broken.

The symptoms you decribe cannot be solved by removing some shares from smb.conf, so if you had it going briefly you must have made a different change...

I don't think it would make sense to exchange Paul's build with mine, they are both very similar (I definitely cannot produce "better" builds than Paul  ;) ), and I am very sure that my builds will not behave different than Paul's on your system.

Samba can be made to use another port, but that would not make sense either.

findsmb.cmd reports OS Win95 in case it was unable to detect something different, the reason for that is that Windows 95 cannot be detected by the ways findsmb.cmd normally uses, so in case nothing is detected Windows 95 is assumed.

You can run Samba and IBM Peer/Requester on the same machine (I have it that way for several reasons), but:

1.) NetBIOS over TCP/IP MUST be uninstalled (Samba can and will never ever work if it is installed).
2.) IBM Peer/Requester MUST use only plain NETBEUI.

Done this way, IBM Peer/Requester can only connect to plain NETBEUI machines, for all the other you MUST use the Samba Client for OS/2...
#112
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.01.31, 09:26:33
I have had the very same warning about "permissions 0755 for browsing to work." ever since I have used Samba on OS/2 but this warning does not seem to have any impact, as browsing works here (and everything else that can work at the moment, works, too).

You do have a line "lock directory = n:/programs/samba/var/locks" in the [global] section of your smb.conf?

That directory exists?

Samba is somewhat picky about non-existing directories, it doesn't create (most) of them, just falls on its nose, and aborts with usually not too meaningful error messages...

Eventually set loglevel to 10, try again, and see if that reveals something relevant...
#113
Networking / Re: Need help with SAMBA
2008.01.30, 09:13:37
Setup a loglevel of 5 and take look into the logfile.
This usually gives you an idea what is going wrong.

Wild guess: Guest account not setup properly, nullpassword = yes not set?

KInd regards,
Herwig
#114
Hardware / Re: Adaptec 2120S support?
2008.01.28, 09:11:51
Hi,

PCI-X should not be an issue, as Kim suggested, I have been running several PCI-X adapters (LAN, SCSI) with OS/2 without problems.

Just for the records, none of my adapters is an Adaptec 2120S, mine are Adaptec 29190, 29320 and Inter Pro/1000 adapters.

Kind regards,
Herwig B.
#115
Well, most of the people who worked on Odin have quit using eCS (OS/2). The last people who contributed and compiled Odin where Andy Willis and Dietrich Teickner. Both are still active eCS (OS/2) users, although now busy with other projects.

Odin is very difficult to compile and very difficult in general.

The source is available at netlabs, in case you want to start working on it.

Kind regards,
Herwig