HP’s Jazz server has Samba config aid

HP’s Jazz server has
Samba config aid

With the 6.0 release of MPE/iX which includes Samba shipping later this month, 3000 managers can get a small piece of software that makes configuring this sharing product much easier. Lars Appel, who pioneered the port of Samba to the 3000, reported on a way to avoid the struggle with the Posix shell and related utilities to create the initial Samba configuration files in the HFS namespace as a bytestream file. You can download the free bbSAT utility at http://jazz.extern al.hp.com/src/samba/bbsat_index.html

“The bbSAT utility distribution on Jazz contains a little MPE command file,” Appel said, “one that prompts for your HP 3000 IP address and subnet mask and creates the initial config files, based on the supplied sample files by inserting the IP and subnet info in the appropriate place. With this type of initial configuring, it should then be possible to edit the smb.conf file from a PC, using PFE or another editor that can handle DOS and Unix/Posix text files (CR-LF, versus LF only).”

The software saves system managers from wading through the huge alphabetical listing of configuration directives in Samba’s smb.conf documentation, trying to find the important or relevant ones for a certain aspect of server configuration. B+B Unternehmensberatung, makers of the product, offer a free core version of bbSAT on Jazz with a reasonable feature set — as well as a link to buy an extended version with additional functionality.