From: Thursday AKA dr._john (thursday@allidaho.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 19:35:18 EST
I would like to thank George Gallen for his reply and follow-up.
This was really more of a workstation than system manager question,
No one seems to have tried DOS-ing with a SCSI zip drive. I linked the
Zip drive to the floppy as suggested in the mtools man pages, but was
never able to get the DOS tools to recognize the Zip media. Blank,
FAT-formatted with known good FAT files, with UFS made, none of these
read. I know the link was working because DOS tools mounted and
unmunted the Zip drive. There may be a way to make it work but there
are probably better ways to spend my time.
Mr. Gallen said why not just ftp over? Well, the files have to travel
20 miles to my work site, where we have a very restrictive access
policy. And if I'm going to network a PC here, why not use Samba or
something? As it turned out Samba for Tru64 is not quite ready for
prime time, but there is an associated product called ASU that seems a
little more solid.
Mr. Gallen provided some excellent follow-up advice on the use of the
ASU utility vs. Samba, particularly Samba will apparently whack ASU if
given a chance.
So ASU it is, because of its more ready-to-use state and good
documentation.
jn
"Thursday"
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