Off topic- Map network drive in Win 7 to Sco Unix

[Brian K. White]

On 11/1/2011 4:34 PM, Craig Tooker wrote:
> On 11/1/2011 14:48, Seth wrote:
>> Please forgive my ignorance. Looked online, tried everything I can think of:
>>
>> Win 7 front end can't access legacy SCO Unix  box. User name and Passwords
>> get rejected. Tried to find an equivelant of "plaintextpasswords" as a
>> registry entry but no luck. Interesting to me is that Win XP running in a
>> virtual pc can access both Unix and Redhat Linux through Samba, but Win 7
>> can't. Would also love to be able to run Termlite natively in Win 7 but
>> that is probably pushing it.
> Here is a link to an old thread about SCO Termlite that may help you
> with that:
> http://fixunix.com/sco/90157-where-find-sco-termlite-2.html
>
> As many of the thread contributors point out, other options are
> available and may work better.
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Indeed, the answer is:
Stop using VisionFS
Stop using TermLite

Both are completely unsupportable since many years ago.

There are many terminal emulators available to replace termlite, many of 
them free, and at least some of the free ones can do good or good-enough 
scoansi emulation.

There are no really good SMB/CIFS servers for SCO any more.

There is a build of Samba that is much newer than VisionFS, but it's 
still old enough to have problems with Vista, let alone Win7

There is a commercial product called FacetWin that is very easy to 
install and still supported. FacetWin also supplies both a terminal 
emulator and the file/print sharing server & client. It's rather 
significantly not cheap.

I'm not sure if FacetWin supports Win7 or not, and it has only had very 
few updates in a long time. They are essentially out of the CIFS & 
Terminal Emulator business and into the software PBX business. But at 
least the company still exists, and still sells and supports the 
product, so you can call them up and ask them.

Personally I just don't use windows file & print sharing.

I dispense files between server & clients via the web server and cgi 
scripts and/or ftp and/or sftp and filezilla or other gui windows 
ftp/sftp clients where needed. I print from the server to windows 
printers using passthrough print through the users terminal emulator, or 
via windows print services for unix if the printer must be reachable 
independant of any terminal session. Actually I don't even use the 
windows lpd server any more either, I just install print servers. It's 
not worth the unreliability to save $70. To print from pc's to the 
server I just use regular lpd, windows supports it fine.

This all uses not only all free software, but current up to date 
supported, well documented, well understood, commonly used software.

I'm sure you don't want to hear that, and would rather hear how to make 
the existing system work. All I can say is good luck with that.

I used both VisionFS and Termlite in the past, so I'm one of a 
relatively few people who could even begin to help, and I haven't used 
either in years. Termlite plain sucked. VisionFS had promise, and had 
one big unique feature nothing else had on sco, but you can't keep 
running something the author no longer supports once it gets 
incompatible with the rest of the world.

The one unique feature was VisionFS is the only windows file & print 
sharing client for sco unix that had the ability to mount a windows 
share as a filesystem like nfs or like samba can do on linux. Samba can 
do it on linux only. FacetWin never had any such feature. Both samba and 
facetwin do have a windows share client that works similar to an ftp 
client and they are scriptable.

So what to do to get working depends on why you want VisionFS or 
Termlite in the first place.

-- 
bkw