beating the samba horse to death...

[J-Golden]

ok, I've got most of it working but am still geting some hangups.

First off, I can't get SWAT to work.  I keep getting a permission denied error.  I'm using Genesis and I think someone told me that it automaticly closes all ports, Is that so?  is there a way around this?

Second, I'm using SBMFS to connect to my pc but am hitting the wall with it starting up automaticly on boot.  It keeps trying to run before Genesis...

Third, and I can't really say this is a bad problem, when I DO mount a drive with SMBFS, it doesn't show up anywhere!!!  I have to type it in manually (the drive mount name) every time.  No Icon on the desktop or anything

Any clues or help?

J-Golden

[Thomas]

First off, I can't get SWAT to work. I keep getting a permission denied error. I'm using Genesis and I think someone told me that it automaticly closes all ports, Is that so? is there a way around this?

I think it is called "access" in GenesisPrefs. Note that more precise rules have to be inserted *above* the general rules. So it might be easier to edit amitcp:db/access in a text editor than to use the GUI.

Second, I'm using SBMFS to connect to my pc but am hitting the wall with it starting up automaticly on boot. It keeps trying to run before Genesis...

Use the events in Genesis to run a script which starts SMBFS after Genesis went online.

Third, and I can't really say this is a bad problem, when I DO mount a drive with SMBFS, it doesn't show up anywhere!!! I have to type it in manually (the drive mount name) every time. No Icon on the desktop or anything

Use the device and volume parameters. Example:

smbfs workgroup myhome //pc/d device PC_D volume "D on PC"

Then you will get a "D on PC" icon on the Workbench and it can be accessed as PC_D: from the shell. This is especially useful if you want to mount multiple shares or shares from different computers.

Bye,
Thomas

[patrik]

@J-Golden:

You need to give a volume-name to the share your are mounting with smbfs for it to pop up as an icon on your Workbench.

You can start Genesis in your S:User-Startup to make it guaranteed to start before anything else. Just add something like this after the AmiTCP assign:

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Run <>NIL: AmiTCP:GenesisRA
WaitForPort AMITCP
Another option would be to start it from within Genesis so to say - I am sure I there were somewhere in the prefs you could set it to execute stuff when going online.


/Patrik