So I'm trying to install Samba 2.2.5 to network my classic Amiga 3000 (12+2 MB RAM, stock 25 MHz 68030 processor, X-Surf ethernet card, Miami) with my Dell Windows 2000 machine. I connect to the internet via DSL with a Linksys router as my gateway.
I made it through most of the installation process as outlined on
Amiga Samba for Idiots OK; in fact, right now I'm copying a Quarterback backup file of my SYS: partition to my backups drive on the Windows machine.
So sometimes I can access the Amiga drives from the Windows machine, although the connectivity comes and goes for reasons I have not yet been able to determine. But so far I have not been able to access the Windows machine from the Amiga. I'm attempting to use smbfs to mount the Windows drives on the Amiga, but every permutation of passwords, user ids, etc that I can think of gets rejected (and yes, I have created a user account for the A3000 on the PC). Smbclient does work and shows the PC drives which are set for sharing, but smbfs keeps turning up nothing but error messages.
One more thing--while the connectivity works from the Windows side, it's slow as molasses. We're talking 30-45 seconds just to open a directory folder. Anyone have any ideas as to how I could speed that up? Thanks in advance for any help.
