Virtual Files System for SMB

A program icon, Virtual File System for SMB, shows up with eCS 2.0 rc4. 
Some questions:

1. Is the Samba we've been promised with eCS 2.0?

2. Where are its documents? Hah! I searched the boot drive for VFS and 
found something in x:\ecs\doc\evfs, a "guide" and a "rexx."

3. What does it do? No clue in the docs, but there is an "contact
email," 
netdrive@bmtmicro.net. There this language appears, which might pertain:

 NetDrive for OS/2 allows you to access various resources, such as a 
  ftp site, a local directory or a network resource, via a regular drive
  letter.
  
  NetDrive for OS/2 supports external plugins for different types of 
  resources.
  
  The version 3.x of NetDrive for OS/2 supports large files (greater
  than 2 gigabytes), has performance improvements and enhanced user
  interface.
  
  The new version requires a recent version of OS/2 because of
  large files support. If you need to use NetDrive for OS/2 on
  a system that does not support large files, then please use
  a 2.x version of NetDrive for OS/2.

4. Assuming the stuff from bmtmicro pertains, I started the VFS. Up popped 
a configuration folder calling for me to identify a "server." If I'm
at 
home and want my home machine to be the server, do I fill in the ip 
address of my home machine? Or should I wait and fill in the home 
machine's ip address when running the program on the office machine, which 
is four miles away? On which machine do I place the User ID and Password. 
And how do I access anything anyway from the other machine?

 Which machine gets the information about "mounting" to -- whatever 
"mount" might mean in eCS?

As you can tell, these are only introductory questions. Somewhere there 
must be some information about what this thing does and how and whether 
there's some eCS program that does the same thing better between two eCS 
machines trying to communicate over the internet. Where? I'm happy to read 
docs.

Craig Colby wrote:
> A program icon, Virtual File System for SMB, shows up with eCS 2.0 rc4. 
> Some questions:
> 
> 1. Is the Samba we've been promised with eCS 2.0?
> 
> 2. Where are its documents? Hah! I searched the boot drive for VFS and 
> found something in x:\ecs\doc\evfs, a "guide" and a
"rexx."
> 
> 3. What does it do? No clue in the docs, but there is an "contact 
> email," netdrive@bmtmicro.net. There this language appears, which
might 
> pertain:
> 
> NetDrive for OS/2 allows you to access various resources, such as a  ftp 
> site, a local directory or a network resource, via a regular drive
>  letter.
>  
>  NetDrive for OS/2 supports external plugins for different types of 
>  resources.
>  
>  The version 3.x of NetDrive for OS/2 supports large files (greater
>  than 2 gigabytes), has performance improvements and enhanced user
>  interface.
>  
>  The new version requires a recent version of OS/2 because of
>  large files support. If you need to use NetDrive for OS/2 on
>  a system that does not support large files, then please use
>  a 2.x version of NetDrive for OS/2.
> 
> 4. Assuming the stuff from bmtmicro pertains, I started the VFS. Up 
> popped a configuration folder calling for me to identify a
"server." If 
> I'm at home and want my home machine to be the server, do I fill in the 
> ip address of my home machine? Or should I wait and fill in the home 
> machine's ip address when running the program on the office machine, 
> which is four miles away? On which machine do I place the User ID and 
> Password. And how do I access anything anyway from the other machine?
> 
> Which machine gets the information about "mounting" to --
whatever 
> "mount" might mean in eCS?
> 
> As you can tell, these are only introductory questions. Somewhere there 
> must be some information about what this thing does and how and whether 
> there's some eCS program that does the same thing better between two eCS 
> machines trying to communicate over the internet. Where? I'm happy to 
> read docs.
> 
I'm not a "techie"(so I may not have understood all), but I'll try:

1. Yes. This is the  "eComStation Virtual File System (Samba client 
support)" mentioned. New for this release is the GUI that you discovered.

2. Don't think there are any more doc:s.

3. It connects you to one or more shares on a server in a workgroup or 
to all servers in a workgroup or to all workgroups in a network.

Example: I have a home network, I call this workgroup "HEMMA" (Which 
means "HOME" in swedish). I contains 5 computers (which acts as both 
servers and clients). To log on to "HEMMA" with my eCS computer I
choose 
"All servers in workgroup" and type "HEMMA" in worgroup
field. Then, as 
I use the same UserID on all computers and no password, I type that 
in.(You have to use the userid and password to the server you shall log 
on to, otherwise you can't access anything. I think it works so 
anyway.)Then I choose a drive (eg E:) and perhaps a directory (not 
necessary)and press "Mount". That will mount these servers and their
shares on drive E:(in this case). So on E: I see the other computers 

Thanks, melf, it works here just the way you said.

But answer me this -- can this Samba thing connect my home and office, 
four miles apart and each separately hooked to the internet?

No, I guess you need VPN for that. There is OPEN-VPN, only vpn-client I 
know (except the native one which I think not is applicable). Seems pretty 
hard to setup, I gave it up when I read the readme..