HP Advanced Server V7.3B for OpenVMS and HP PATHWORKS V6.1 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)

HP PATHWORKS V6.1 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)
PATHWORKS Advanced Server lets users share OpenVMS files. PATHWORKS Advanced
Server file shares are based on Microsoft’s Advanced Server V3.0 SMB (Server Message Block)
protocols. You can use discretionary access Windows NT controls on each file and directory
to specify the groups and users that can access files, to define the levels of access that each
group or user is permitted, and to control auditing supported by Windows NT-like security.
Additional, optional security is provided by OpenVMS file and directory protections.
Each file stored in a file service is stored as an OpenVMS file in Record Management Services
(RMS) format. Three types of RMS file or record formats are allowed and supported on each
volume:
• Sequential stream
• Sequential fixed-length record (512 bytes per record)
• Sequential undefined
Files stored in a file service are accessible to PC clients, to OpenVMS users, and to applications
that can interpret the content and organization of a file written by the client application.
Multiple clients can concurrently access files stored on the server’s disk through the file-access
modes and byte-range locking support provided by PATHWORKS Advanced Server.
Note: The Advanced Server does not support concurrent simultaneous access to files by
OpenVMS processes and the Advanced Server processes. To enable compatibility with legacy
applications such as MS-DOS, the Advanced Server automatically creates MS-DOS-compatible
alias file names for files whose names do not comply with the file naming standards of those
applications. As a result, client applications that must use, or choose to use, the MS-DOS
format for file names, can access these shared files on the server by using the file’s associated
alias name.
Print Shares
PATHWORKS Advanced Server software lets Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003,
Windows XP Professional, and OpenVMS users share printers connected to VAX computers,
Alpha computers, or OpenVMS Cluster systems, as well as network-based printers such as LAT
printers and PrintServers. Print shares are supported in local area network (LAN) and wide area
network (WAN) environments. PC clients can print files from their desktop operating systems
as well as from PC applications.
Multiple print shares can be defined for a single printer. For example, separate services can
be created for landscape-mode printing and portrait-mode printing. Similarly, separate services
can be created for DIGITAL mode and IBM ProPrinter mode printing for a single LA75 printer.
PATHWORKS Advanced Server supports the DECprint Supervisor for OpenVMS (DCPS)
product, which provides PostScript and DEC ANSI printing to selected industry-standard
PostScript printers.
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