John_Gardner@nfumutual.co.uk
2003-Sep-19 14:20 UTC
[Samba] Latest Samba Disto for Os390/Unix ?
HI,I would be interested if there is a release of Samba for Os390/Unix later that 1.9. (I have tried downloading the 'samba-latest.tar.gz' file from the mirror site,but as I cannot unzip/untar it,due to not having the 'gzip' program !). Therfore I am not sure how compatible it may or may not be with my Os390/Uss platform. Thanks for any help received in advance. John. ______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the named recipient or entity. The e-mail and any attachments may contain legally privileged or confidential information and may not be disclosed to anyone else. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately on 01789-202121 and delete the material from any computer that may contain it and destroy any printed copies you may have made. We accept no liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage arising from any action taken in reliance on or use of the information contained in this e-mail and give no warranty or representation as to its accuracy or reliability. NFU Mutual has the facility to monitor and read both incoming and outgoing communications by e-mail and these may be intercepted by its automated e-mail administrators. NFU Mutual will not accept e-mail communications found to contain viruses. Parent Company: The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Ltd (No. 111982). Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for Life, Pension and Investment business. Registered in England Registered office : Tiddington Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 7BJ. Tel: 01789 204211 NFU Mutual is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council, ABI and FOS. http://www.nfumutual.co.uk
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 John_Gardner@nfumutual.co.uk wrote:> (I have tried downloading the 'samba-latest.tar.gz' file from the mirror > site,but as I cannot unzip/untar it,due to not having the 'gzip' program > !). > Therfore I am not sure how compatible it may or may not be with my > Os390/Uss platform.C'mon John, are you a system administrator for an S/390? :-) If I understand you correctly, you are trying to tell us that Samba might not be compatible with your OS because your OS doesn't have a certain unzipping program installed by default? You sound like a Windows user who fails to install WinZip... www.gzip.org has the gzip source, in case there's no binaries available for your OS. If you fail to build gzip, you will most likely have a hard time building Samba... AFAIR OS/390 allows you to host "other" operating systems that might work, then you could e.g. install Debian and run Samba in that virtual machine... scnr Alex -- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." --John Lennon
I was able to get gzip to compile under USS with fairly little difficulty. OS/390 (zOS) doesn't host other operating systems. IBM's OTHER OS, zVM, does that, and there's a native Linux for it. Unfortunately, getting the Samba source onto USS (Unix System Services) is only the first part of the battle. USS, while POSIX compliant, is unusual enough that most Open Source products won't build there without SUBSTANTIAL fiddling. I was able to get gzip, xterm, and a couple of other programs to build, but someone else had done the work on the autoconf bit before. That old version of Samba was fixed to build under USS, but to my knowledge nobody has ever tried to retrofit the mods to a later version. IBM distributes a Samba "equivalent" with zOS 1.4 and above. It should be part of the base.> -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander List [mailto:alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at] > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 2:25 PM > To: John_Gardner@nfumutual.co.uk > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Latest Samba Disto for Os390/Unix ? > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 John_Gardner@nfumutual.co.uk wrote: > > > (I have tried downloading the 'samba-latest.tar.gz' file > from the mirror > > site,but as I cannot unzip/untar it,due to not having the > 'gzip' program > > !). > > Therfore I am not sure how compatible it may or may not be with my > > Os390/Uss platform. > > C'mon John, > > are you a system administrator for an S/390? :-) > > If I understand you correctly, you are trying to tell us that > Samba might > not be compatible with your OS because your OS doesn't have a certain > unzipping program installed by default? > > You sound like a Windows user who fails to install WinZip... > > www.gzip.org has the gzip source, in case there's no binaries > available > for your OS. If you fail to build gzip, you will most likely > have a hard > time building Samba... > > AFAIR OS/390 allows you to host "other" operating systems > that might work, > then you could e.g. install Debian and run Samba in that virtual > machine... > > scnr > > Alex > > -- > "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." > --John Lennon > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >