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Any recent updates for smb-handler or smbfs?
« on: March 02, 2017, 09:44:23 PM »
As the era of Windows XP and compatible versions of Samba in NASes dies out, these very useful utilities are showing their age.

In my case I have an EMC NAS with a special share for Amiga software.  If I leave the share open to all users with no authentication necessary, smb-handler works just fine.  However, lock the share down to require authentication and smb-handler cannot connect.

smbfs will connect and authenticate just fine, however it is single-threaded and using it from DOpus or Workbench (the latter explicitly not recommended) is as slow as... well, think of something REALLY SLOW that makes you want to stab someone in the neck just to keep from falling asleep.

As an aside, FTPmount works, but it is slow, as well, and useless for Internet-facing sites which require TLS.

Currently running: smb-handler 0.19, smbfs 1.74.
 

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Re: Any recent updates for smb-handler or smbfs?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2017, 10:15:55 PM »
Didn't find this last night, but I just found a mention at EAB about smbfs v1.102.  Doesn't mention if it addresses the threading issue, but definitely will be worth a try.
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Re: Any recent updates for smb-handler or smbfs?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2017, 06:47:42 AM »
Oh, yeah, just tried out smbfs v1.102 and it flies!  Now, I may be old fashioned or stuck in old ways but I rather like a mount list.  So while I would prefer an up-to-date smb-handler, smbfs works very well, and with the proper arguments it can act like a mount-ed device, including an assigned device name (like NAS:) and a volume name so it appears on the Workbench.

I am using Miami DX and a USB 10/100 Ethernet adapter.  I can imagine it would run a bit better under Roadshow as it's taking a ridiculously long time to copy a 600MB ISO.  Oh, actually it's just stalled :(  It could be a stack problem as it's only getting 4k (although my default used to be 32k... what happened with that?)  I'll try setting the priority to a -5, as well, on par with other "services."

EDIT: Actually, I don't think the problem is smbfs.  MiamiDX or Poseidon seems to be dying as soon as I start running a lot of traffic through it.  The fix is to power-cycle the USB Ethernet then take Miami off-line and back on-line.  A little contemplation and I think I may have some mismatches in Poseidon as I have all of the original 4.whatever it was classes and parts in my Deneb flash-ROM, but recently upgraded to Poseidon 4.5.  I did see a marked increase in performance with this version of smbfs so I'm ready to call that for what it is and troubleshoot my troubled system otherwise.
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Re: Any recent updates for smb-handler or smbfs?
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2017, 11:00:06 PM »
Quote from: spudje;822936
Maybe I don't understand your question, but you can mount smbfs shares the "Amiga way" with SMBmounter


Spelled it out in my opening sentence:

Quote from: LoadWB;822933
Oh, yeah, just tried out smbfs v1.102 and it flies!  Now, I may be old fashioned or stuck in old ways but I rather like a mount list.


A simple icon in DOSDrivers is my preferred method

I found the source for 1.111 on github, but I don't suppose anyone has the binary?