HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8

[Michael Ober]

Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any benefits
to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
 
Thanks,
Mike Ober.
 
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[Aravinda Guzzar]

Hi Mike,

yes there are lots of benefits migrating from 2.2.8 to the latest version of
CIFS on VMS.

It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with the
latest OSes. There is support for VMS specific file formats viz. Varaible
Length formats, StreamLF and supports ODS2 disks also. It is been qualified
on the clusters also. So you will get the benefit of the clusters.

Please note that you need to have the latest CRTL patches. before you
migrate and as a suggestion please test the software on your test hardwares,
and convince yourself before migrating to the production.

Regards
Aravind


On 5/9/08, Michael Ober <mdo@...> wrote:

>
> Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any benefits
> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Ober.
>
> PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

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[Boyce, Nick]

>> are there any benefits
>> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
>
> yes there are lots of benefits ... It is been qualified on the latest
> hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with the latest OSes

On the other hand, I believe HP's CIFS-for-VMS product isn't available
for VAXen, or on VMS versions earlier than 7.3-2 .... so if you've got
one of those platforms (more common than you might think) then you have
to stick with JYC Samba.

Someone please let me know if I'm wrong :)

Nick Boyce
EDS ASFO EMEA, Bristol, UK




-----Original Message-----
From: samba-vms-bounces+nick.boyce=eds.com@...
[mailto:samba-vms-bounces+nick.boyce=eds.com@...] On Behalf
Of Aravinda Guzzar
Sent: 09 May 2008 05:58
To: Michael Ober
Cc: samba-vms@...
Subject: Re: HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8

Hi Mike,

yes there are lots of benefits migrating from 2.2.8 to the latest
version of
CIFS on VMS.

It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with
the
latest OSes. There is support for VMS specific file formats viz.
Varaible
Length formats, StreamLF and supports ODS2 disks also. It is been
qualified
on the clusters also. So you will get the benefit of the clusters.

Please note that you need to have the latest CRTL patches. before you
migrate and as a suggestion please test the software on your test
hardwares,
and convince yourself before migrating to the production.

Regards
Aravind


On 5/9/08, Michael Ober <mdo@...> wrote:
>
> Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any
benefits
> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Ober.
>
> PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>



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[Michael Ober]

OK - I made the transition and found one bug (reported to HP already)
and one medium level difference between the two versions of Samba.  The
bug is that you _MUST_ have the statement "follow symlinks = Yes" in the
[global] section.  This has been confirmed as a bug in the base samba
version by Jeremy Allison and I gave HP the reference to his
confirmation.  The medium level difference is that JYC handled VFC files
properly and HP CIFS doesn't handle them.  I worked around this by
converting the VFC text files to Sequential Stream via the convert/fdl
utility.
 
Performance wise HP CIFS is about twice as fast as for file IO and even
faster for directories with large numbers of files.  In addition, once I
hooked to our Windows AD domain connections have been seamless.
 
Mike Ober.
 

________________________________

From: Aravinda Guzzar [mailto:aguzzar@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:58 PM
To: Michael Ober
Cc: samba-vms@...
Subject: Re: HP CIFS vs JYC SAMBA 2.2.8


Hi Mike,
 
yes there are lots of benefits migrating from 2.2.8 to the latest
version of CIFS on VMS.
 
It is been qualified on the latest hardware of Itanium and Alpha, with
the latest OSes. There is support for VMS specific file formats viz.
Varaible Length formats, StreamLF and supports ODS2 disks also. It is
been qualified on the clusters also. So you will get the benefit of the
clusters.
 
Please note that you need to have the latest CRTL patches. before you
migrate and as a suggestion please test the software on your test
hardwares, and convince yourself before migrating to the production.
 
Regards
Aravind

 
On 5/9/08, Michael Ober <mdo@...> wrote:

        Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any
benefits
        to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?
       
        Thanks,
        Mike Ober.
       
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        http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
       




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[BRAD-17]

Michael Ober wrote:
> Now that HP's CIFS has been out for a few months, are there any benefits
> to migrating from JYC's Samba 2.2.8 to HP CIFS?

I have a slightly different question - has anyone migrated from Samba to
CIFS using workgroup only, rather than a domain setup?

The last time I attempted to migrate without using a domain, I found the
resulting CONF file would not work in a workgroup (peer) setup, and I
could not modify the CONF file properly.  I don't need a domain setup,
since this is a home network.
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