BANGALORE, INDIA: The MPE/iX implementation of POSIX.1 C APIs and POSIX.2 conforming shell makes many UNIX targeted applications eligible to be ported on MPE/iX. Further, while many recent ‘Open Source’ applications are based upon a POSIX.4 standard, there exists enough of a POSIX framework to allow a useful implementation of such applications. Samba is one such application which provides a set of file server/sharing interoperability features between Windows and UNIX like systems. The MPE/iX version of Samba, sometime called Samba/iX, allows Windows based systems to access Files stored on MPE/iX Servers.

The paper starts with a very brief background on MPE/iX, POSIX compliance and GNU tools. In this paper we will describe how to port (refresh) a new version of Samba starting from downloading the source code through bringing up a new Samba/iX file server on a MPE/iX System. One major subject to be covered is how to evaluate which features of an application like Samba can be supported by MPE.

We also discuss how to configure the build machine for porting from the installation of GNU tools and utilities, through the creation of build accounts and setting proper capability permissions. The porting of the Samba code is the basis of this example.

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