OS4 and home network

FTP will work mostly right away...if you just want to shove data around thats probably the stress free method.

If you are going with SAMBA/smbfs here's a line i use for my NAS
(i have an icon on WB which i can access whenever i want to)

C:Run >NIL: Samba:smbfs/smbfs WORKGROUP="your_group" DEVICE=SMBFB: VOLUME=your_volume_name: SERVICE=//192.168.xxx.x/your_NAS/

That works a charm given your smbfs installation is working and ready.

I went as far as creating a start script which checks for the availability and only adds the NAS after becoming available and checking for and in case adding an icon to it

If you want i can post it aswell

So this is what I have got:

Netgear Stora 2TB

Windows XP box

Windows 7 box

iMac (which doesn't see the NAS, not sure why)

SAM440ep OS4.1upd3

What is the first thing I have to do on OS4.1 please?

ping the NAS
if it is reachable, use ftp (pftp or amiftp) to reach it

if ftp is enough for you, i'd stop there for a moment and then see if you want to fiddle around with samba/smbfs

Cool! Thanks I'll do that and report!

I can ping the NAS IP address...now how can I see the contents of the NAS itself?

I would like to copy stuff on it and retrieve stuff from it...tried with amiftp but it wouldn't connect...

try pftp, as this one is part of OS4 (as far as I remember), try to acess your NAS via Windows, first. There is a ftp commad for your Windows Console/Shell. This one reports in detail what goes wrong. Always keep in mind, that for ftp acess you need a password and username, sometimes it MUST be set, as some ftp clients cannot cope properly with a "blank" username/PW. Transfermode should normally set to "passive" in pftp.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Isn't there an easy way to connect OS4 to stuff like shared drives, NAS etc?

What is running in Windows that allows us to just type:

\\stora (my NAS on the network)

and it pops up in a window?

Isn't there an equivalent way in OS4?

@TheDaddy
SMBMounter might do that:
http://www.robthenerd.com/show.php?se ... bmounter&page=screenshots

Thanks Chris,
It needs smbfs...which I have downloaded.

Where di I put it? In C:?

Thanks

From the look of the screenshots, you tell SMBMounter where you put SMBFS, so you can put it where ever you want. I suggest in a folder next to SMBMounter...

I meant the smbfs file has to be somewhere...C, Libs, L?

I am such a newbie!

C:

Thank you!

I have added it to C then I ran it and it asked to assign SAMBA! I pointed it to AmigaOS/C and

it worked!

Will it always ask to assign SAMBA?

Anyway, this disk mounted on the Workbench and it had the NAS contents inside, copying the Quake2 pak files from it to my Quake2 directory and Quake2 runs now! Pretty fast!

Pretty decent too, much faster than my old A1200 PPC266MHz!

1024 suffers a bit even in MiniGL mode but still awesome at lower res!

@TheDaddy
I understood your question! I'd just stick SMBFS in a folder next to SMBMount. I think you can tell it where SMBFS can be found....

Thanks Chris, ok I'll try that too...

Quote:
I have just uploaded the latest 1.74 version to both OS4Depot and Aminet.

Varthall

btw. about the difference between ftp mount and samba...

I've understood that if one uses samba, the copy operations between network drive directories happen on the network drive itself, while with FTP you end up copying the data via LAN to your Amiga RAM and then back to the drive via LAN = very slow.
Am I right?

In my opinion, people shouldn't need to install other software for networking on AmigaOS4. It should be integrated and people should be able to Network with their Macs and Windows7 PC's easily.

If I have a Mac and a Windows7 PC on my network, AmigaOS4 should tell me that that are two computers on this network, identify them and add itself to the network.

@ancalimon

Are you volunteering for this monumental task then?

I'd suggest you start off by searching for CIFS "Common Internet File System", then check out the community forums of the numerous people that are struggling hard to keep up with the Windows "improvements". It's something that a large team of people (in their free time I might add) find difficult to keep up with and maintain.

Simon

Isn't there some kind of networking standard?