samba on an amiga

[pVC]

Every TCP/IP stack has the hosts file/configuration.

For AmiTCP/IP based stacks (AmiTCP/IP, Genesis, EasyNet?):
AmiTCP:db/hosts

For Miami:
Database->Hosts in GUI

For Roadshow:
Devs:Internet/hosts

For Netstack:
ENVARC:sys/net/hosts

And I'm pretty sure even TermiteTCP has one somewhere

[pVC]

Don't you need a specific SMB client application on the amiga side?

If you want to mount Samba shares on other machines from Amiga, there's absolutely no need to install full Samba installation on Amiga. SMBFS is a stand-alone executable which is just fine for the purpose. You can mount any Samba share as a drive under AmigaOS with it.

A side question, is there any amiga native network file sharing? (like SMB but for amiga)

Yes there is! NetFS Revised is a perfect solution for it. It preservers Amiga's file attributes (Samba doesn't) and everything.

[pVC]

reading through the txt file it seems to be very useful...
I could setup my efika of mac mini with Mos as a server of some sort and use the client state on any other amiga in my house with network....
Genius :biglaugh:

Yeah, I can cross mount all my machines here with it... ram disks, partitions etc Easy to tune secondary machines from one "central" machine and copy files here and there. I also sync one machine to another to keep them in exactly the same state.

Here's a guide with screenshots how to configure it:
https://library.morph.zone/Mounting_Network_Drives#NetFS_Revised

[pVC]

Thanks for this.  I had completely forgotten about NetFS.  I need to try it out.

And especially this NetFS Revised version is a great update to the ancient NetFS.

[pVC]

Don't tell anyone, but back in the days, before NAT routers took over completely, it happened that I found remote Amiga systems of users on IRC that had netfs running and would allow sinister people like me to mount their RAM:, so I could mess with their ENV:sys/palette.prefs etc and see them complain on IRC about how their Amiga was behaving strangely. Good old times

Yeah, I didn't do any harm to anyone, but sometimes if someone asked for some file, I dumped it to their RAM: disk, and told to check there Had to explain two times after that.

But this new version is password protected, and permissions are given in other way, so it's more safe now, and not open by default And of course most people are behind NAT too.

How do i find the files for Envoy?

Find lots of related stuff on aminet. patches and such...
but seemingly i cant find the actual files.....

It's a commercial product... I don't remember if it's been given away for free at any point, maybe still under copyrights. And it has some problems with NG systems.

[pVC]

nameserver is 4.4.4.4

trying to ping 4.4.4.4 cannot

Are you sure this is what should work for you? Google's name servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, and this 4.4.4.4 is something else or some ISP specific server.

[pVC]

The same behavior could be experienced in using windows (NTFS or god forbid FAT) filesystems to store amiga files in a network.
If you however compress files before storing them the matter is irrelevant because the amiga file attributes or flags are maintained inside the compressed file.
As long as the compressing and uncompressing is happening inside the amiga environment.

Yeah, and as long as it's done with an archiving program that really preservers them. LHA, LZX, ISO files, or similar should be used instead of ZIP, TAR, RAR, or other "alien" archiver.

[pVC]

My nas does not have or support NetFS
i use readynas NV+ and asustor AS204

Nobody's NAS have support for it. It was speculative talk that "what if" or "could it" -> "then I would"