samba on an amiga

[scuzzb494]

I set up my Samba back in the early 2000s so I kinda just take it for granted now. Took a while and had a lot of help from the Samba group on Yahoo. I had problems with some of the Windows machines with passwords but broke the back of it. I always have to run my own NMBD script to get the thing going and all my shares with other PC's are actioned by clicking icons I created on the Workbench.

These are my notes I made last year to refresh me where all the things are kept and what links I used just in case it all ever fell over. Like I say my notes on my system.

Most PCs work, I have Win95,98 and XP connected.

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_september17/scuzzblogdseptember17_1501.htm

[scuzzb494]

I have no problems running samba on my pcs. i have a couple of linux servers that run SMB files haring. and it works like a charm.
I have bad experience running samba on amiga. and worse experience in the actual file sharing. all files moved over smb protocol needs to be packed to maintain amiga file formating.
But i am going to experiment with my mac mini, morphOS and NetFS
setting up the mac mini as a fileserver. looking into setting it up with larger disks... and so on.

Probably misunderstood the issue, my bad, but I don't get that problem.

Anyway good luck. I used the Samba Yahoo Group when I was needing help. The archive is all still up.

Just an extra note... I've been on the 1200 all night and hooked into a Windows machine and reading all the guides that came with Samba and how to write the config file and so on,  and what not to do. Would be useful posting your SMB so that we could have a look at how you have things set up. Struggling to see why you are having the issues. I'm currently backing up my Samba drive onto the Windows machine. Earlier I was playing a number of Amiga animations that I have created and loaded via the network that are stored on the PC using DOpus on the Amiga. In truth I've had very few issues with the network and the Amiga. Mostly I get issues with a dodgy SCSI that I use, but I can put up with that.

When I first set up the network I got great help from the Samba group and there did use to be a very good guide that has sadly gone now, but I still have a copy of all the pages. I do recall there being a real stumbling block with the set up until one last post gave me the answer. Difficult for me to unthread that without going through all the group posts. I do recall passwords being an issue for a while.

Anyway have fun.

[scuzzb494]

Hi

I'm still not sure what the issue here is but I have used my Amigas on a home network consisting of a dozen PCs all hard wired through hubs and cables and they all have their shares set up on the Amiga and once logged in using NMBS and their specific SMBFS icon that I created their specific icon becomes available as a folder, and or complete drive to store Amiga files.

There are limitations on the file naming that is set out in the SMBFS guide and Windows restricts the use of certian file names. Over the last two days I have been backing up 2 SCSI drives and a 2.5" drive with 6GB of Amiga data using DOpus. I get one or two issues, but nothing serious. Within that are the current Workbench files of all the Amiga systems. There are only issues with |includes in AMOS, a " " file in MUI and the AUX file in Storage. Also CanDo has one or two example files that won't work and one of my animations is always flagged as busy. I've been backing up and using the PCs for decades now.

I also ZIP and CD copy using the Windows system.

Like I say, not sure whether this is a storage issue or whether you are trying to run programs from the PC side. That to me would be odd given that the Amiga is best at running Amiga programs. Never used an emulator or a Mac Linux etc system. Only use the Amigas and the PC. I also use a very slow system called AmiPC in times of urgent need. All have worked fine. I know what files have issues cus DOpus lets me know. I also have one XP machine set up as my hub or server for all my files which I drag Amiga programs and files off all the time across the network.

The SMBFS guide is very thorough on the various limitations. The program I assume has its limitations, but for me other than file names that the other OS doesn't allow I haven't ever experienced any loss of files and changes to files by the WindowsOS. I did get an odd problem with a file from one of the guides once that although found its way onto the Windows system could not be deleted.

Anyway, no doubt you are talking about something I know little of and I guess I kinda miss the point. It took me a long time to configure my SMB to get it all working properly on all the computers, but since I got it working has never failed. The reason I back up my Samba files and all the various Workbenches is that when I lose a hd I can quickly get back up and running. Fits on a ZIP and CD also so I have other options and even Parnet can get the ball rolling quickly. Networking is so important in keeping my gzillion computers fluid .... wouldn't be without all those wonderful cables. My internet is on a different network. Never cross the streams ... thats a rule not a guide , its the Venkman Rule. My A4000d 18GB is backed up regularly onto PC with no issue.... if I lost that it would be bad. I also only use conventional hard drives and trust me they all are fine. You have to hit the odd one with a hammer but they generally work fine.