>On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 17:32:53 -0500, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
>

>>Samba is an implementation of SMB for UNIXy systems. IBM had an independent
>>implementation of SMB in z/OS, but has dropped it in favour of NFS.
>>

>Correct. I was referring to "z/OS Samba" - DFS/SMB.   Removed with z/OS 2.4.  
>NFS 
>is where all the development has gone and is the only thing supported now.   
>The 
>DFS/SMB file system could not be mounted with RWSHARE.  
>
>https://www.ibm.com/docs/de/zos/2.3.0?topic=v2r3-dfssmb-prepare-removal-dfssmb
>

I also had a port of Samba running / working on OS/390, I think from OS/390 2.4 
or
OS/390 2.5 until IBM came out with a supported DFS/SMB. I used to backup
my laptop hard drive to z/OS unix that way and continued to do it until about
5 years ago when I removed DFS/SMB from z/OS 2.2 knowing that it was going
away the release after z/OS 2.3. There was no other usage at the time as
everything else was using NFS. These days everything critical / volatile is 
backed up to the cloud by keeping it on my Onedrive as long as there is
nothing sensitive / a security risk.   

Regards,

Mark
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