Downloading to a SAMBA volume...

[Cass]

Is it possible? Now that I'm testing AmiGift, I'd like to use as incoming/completed volume the many GB free HD residing in my PC...

Not that it's an AmiGift problem, but rather an intrinsic SAMBA curiosity: I can copy a file to the mounted volume (thus is writable) but I cannot stream data to it! :-?

Any suggestions on how to use downloads with the mounted SAMBA vol. ?
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[amiwalker]

First of all, did you not have troble with the install of AMigift??

I just downloaded it and rebooted, but when I try to run the program, t quits because of NList stack size and it also reports that I have the wrong version of amigift.library??

OK I am confused!!

BTW, I do use Samba and Tango for establishing connections to my PC on my home network.

If I can get Amigift to work, then I will try to get the share directory to be a folder on the PC via Samba!

[Cass]

Read this link on the problems encountered...

-download latest full version & patch
-makedir aminet & add aminet.conf

and you're ready to go!

Meanwhile you can try this: download a link/file from the web with your browser to a SAMBA volume and tell me if this even starts.
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[amiwalker]

I tried to download a file from the internet and localhost to a samba mounted drive, but both the localhost (LAN) and Internet (WAN) links would not download for some reason???


I am using AOS3.9 BB2 Genesis, and IBrowse2.3 on an A3000D
with X-SurfII

The only thing I can think of as to why this won't work, is because the router gets confused with the destination of the IP packets (Ami or PC)??


If any one has an answer to this I would also like to know!!

[KennyR]

I've tried many times to download to a Samba mounted drive on my Amiga, but it doesn't work with Amiga samba. It seems to be unable to make the 0 byte files to begin with and add to them. Just a limitation of Amiga Samba, and not something I think you can ever work around.

[KennyR]

amiwalker wrote:
 tried to download a file from the internet and localhost to a samba mounted drive, but both the localhost (LAN) and Internet (WAN) links would not download for some reason???


I am using AOS3.9 BB2 Genesis, and IBrowse2.3 on an A3000D
with X-SurfII

The only thing I can think of as to why this won't work, is because the router gets confused with the destination of the IP packets (Ami or PC)??

It's nothing to do with IP packets, it's just that Amiga samba doesn't like the way IB2.3 writes to files. It doesn't work. It worked with 2.2, AFAIR.

[Cass]

@ KennyR

You're probably right :

touch SMB0:test.txt
touch: SMB0:test.txt: No such file or directory

Any hope for a new release/fix for this problem? I'm really out of disk space !
I have the 2.0.0 version but there is the 2.0.7  out, anyone tried it?
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[PiR]

Hi Cass

Have you tried smbfs?
It doesn't need all the samba package, as it does everything by its own (only TCP/IP, of course) and is as simple in configuration as possible.

Good luck

[Framiga]

Hi Cass,

although i have zero experience about Samba, i don't suggest you to use a Samba volume for the Incoming folder.

"Incoming", needs a very fast and reliable device.

For the "Completed" . . . no problem :-)

Ciao :-)

[Cass]

@PiR

It worked! That's great! Thank you :-D:-D:-D

I was using the SMB-Handler instead of the whole server/client thingie but it has its drawbacks :-(

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