Samba malfunctioning on Alpha VMS 7.3-2

[gorskic]

We've had some serious issues with our installation of VMS 7.3 Alpha and cured them by upgrading to 7.3-2. However, this broke our Samba installation. We can mount the server from NT 4.0 and authenticate to it. We can open the share point in Windows Explorer and even copy files to the desktop! However, when I try to open a file from an application (or double click a file), or execute an application that resides in the share point, I get an error in Windows "The network resource type is not correct."

Incidentally, I see the same error mounting the share via NFS!

Any clues as to what's going on here? Your help would be appreciated!

 

[HughSamson]

I'm not sure what the problem is with Samba off-hand, but the fact that your NFS shares are having issues is a definite problem - and as Samba uses TCPIP for mounting etc, this may be the root of your problem.

What version of TCPIP services are you using (including patches)?
What mount command are you using on vms to mount the shares?
Exactly what commands do and don't work using NFS?

I've had some fun with NFS lately myself but managed to get it all going... with help from HP.