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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: freqmax on September 08, 2012, 11:00:36 PM

Title: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: freqmax on September 08, 2012, 11:00:36 PM

What is available in the form of  network drive sharing drivers for Amiga that has a small memory footprint and can use Zorro-Ethernet, serial, parallell, PCMCIA-Ethernet etc?

Ie that shares drives and files not blocks.

Title: Re: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: Matt_H on September 09, 2012, 02:37:34 AM

Envoy! I love Envoy. It's VERY lightweight and will even run from a bootable floppy. Extremely easy to configure for ethernet devices. Serial and parallel are possible, but I've never done it successfully.

There are all sorts of nifty add-on services for Envoy - LAN chat tools, remote ARexx, remote shells - but those are probably more than you need for drive sharing.

Title: Re: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: freqmax on September 09, 2012, 02:58:50 AM

Source included? ;)

Title: Re: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: Matt_H on September 09, 2012, 04:54:07 AM

Dev kit is on the Amiga Developer CD 2.1, I think. The various add-ons are on Aminet.

Envoy itself is tough to find. I got it from Softhut some time ago. They might still have some. It can be acquired through, cough, other sources as well.

I wonder if Heinz Wrobel could be persuaded/paid to release it as freeware or open-source...

Title: Re: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: Duce on September 09, 2012, 05:05:54 AM

I used Envoy years ago when I needed to network 2 Amiga's and had very good luck with it.

I use SAMBA/SMBFS now between my windows/linux/mac/SAM and A1200 machines and it works just fine, but the Amiga variants don't particularly like W7/Server 2008 machines much.

Title: Re: Network drive sharing ..?
Post by: pVC on September 09, 2012, 08:52:47 AM

Amiga netfs (http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/NetFS) is pretty OK for sharing drives between Amigas (or amiga like systems) over TCP/IP connection. Very small, simple to setup, preserves Amiga's file attributes. It feels pretty slow, but does its job very fine otherwise.. although I noticed that it can be fast, but I think that depends how big chunks your copy command tries to transfer. Should make some more tests, but I noticed that with copy command or dopus it's slowish, but with UpDateCopy command it went fast...

Anyway, netfs is provided with all AmiTCP/IP packages (Genesis + older). With those you just need one command line to mount other amiga's partitions. That separate archive can be installed for other TCP/IP stacks.