How to stop SMBFS from crashing

[motorollin]

Ok if it works for you using that config then I will compare it with mine.

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moto

[Framiga]

if they are at default, they are much different! ;-)

you should have as default 8192 for both send receive buffers ... rise to 32768 both

clusters and Max mem as well ... that value are too small for modern/ish connections

These settings are different accordingly on what NIS card/driver/connection speed you have.

Thats seems ok for WAN and a 10 Mb NIC card, even if a bit high for LANs

Hence you have to experiment a bit

[motorollin]

I have never changed any settings in Genesis apart from the network configuration. Maybe those buffers are being exceeded which is causing the crashes  :idea:

Off to check the settings...

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moto

[Matt_H]

@ moto

This is an alternative to SMBFS that I use. A bit of a challenge to get going, but it uses a different handler so it might dodge whatever bug in SMBFS is causing your crash.

[motorollin]

Thanks Matt! If I can't get it going with Framiga's AmiTCP settings I'll give that a go (and might still try it even if I can get SMBFS working, since that is a much more recent app).

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moto

[motorollin]

Just hung 3.7MB in, with the new settings from Framiga. Thanks anyway for taking the trouble to post your config. If nothing else, it made my connection a LOT faster, which is great :-) About to try SMBCN as suggested by Matt.

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moto

[rare_j]

motorollin wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a Subway and using a USB hard disk for my backup.

How about using a compactflash card with a PCMCIA adapter? I've used a 64MB card with cfd.lha and fat95 and it works very well.
I dont see any reason why it wouldn't work with a 2GB card (unless there's some limit on the PCMCIA port I don't know about).

[motorollin]

I would, but this is on my A4000.

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moto

[motorollin]

Matt, did you have problems getting SMBCN to authenticate? Using the same share and the same logon credentials, SMBCN fails to authenticate whereas SMBFS works fine :-?

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moto

[rkauer]

 Moto, just an important tip:

 Never copy files directly from Amiga partitions to a peecee. You will loose the uni* special flags (Amiga use all of them).

 A good approach to solve the problem is create the lha archive in the RAMdisk and then throw it thru the network (via FTP or any solution you like).

 Keep the archive sizes under 100Mb each (to avoid lack of memory) and problem solved.

[motorollin]

Well I give up. I don't want to trust my data to something so flakey. I was considering using an IDE to Compact Flash adapter with a FAT formatted card to store the LHA file then use a USB Compact Flash adapter to copy the file on to my Mac. The reason I put this out of my mind was that I've disabled my internal IDE interface. But I've just remembered that I've got an IDE interface on my X-Surf, so I'll use that.

Thanks anyway to everyone who has helped.

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moto

[Matt_H]

motorollin wrote:
Matt, did you have problems getting SMBCN to authenticate? Using the same share and the same logon credentials, SMBCN fails to authenticate whereas SMBFS works fine :-?
moto

I remember it being pretty flakey - definitely depended on the phase of the moon to work correctly.

With Miami and my setup, it'll often erroneously bring up a Login/Password window if there's a general problem connecting. The PC's hostname and IP address need to be in your hosts database (not quite sure where AmiTCP/Genesis stores it, but it's there), and this is Hell if you use DHCP.

I think you can create mountlists with SMB-Handler - maybe the manual route is the way to go.

It might choke with Vista. Not sure if there's any way to deal with that. I've had it somewhat working with XP Pro, and working well with Win98.

[countzero]

There's also 1.71 of smbfs, available at projects sourceforge page.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=139532