I will try to work with QNAP

I would stick it on e-bay
then, bid on a low powered itx board run it off a cf card and install FreeNas




'clarkconnect i use now as it has the email server i was missing in FreeNas'

wot ever way u go, best o luck

@matt3

Your NAS is just fine, smbfs just was buggy. I've located the bug and fixed it. Expect smbfs 1.74 shortly.

Here's a diff for the impatient (anyone building smbfs by themselves):
http://sintonen.fi/temp/smbfs-writebraw-fix.diff
(the patch applies against smbfs 1.73 available from http://amiga-smbfs.sourceforge.net/ )


Anyone blaming QNAP for these "problems": This was NOT their fault. Any system running fresh samba had the same problem.


[ Edited by Piru on 2009/7/22 0:48 ]

Hi Piru,

Thanks so much for the fixing the problem, I look forward to it.

I must say that QNAP has been great to work with, they were willing to create a new firmware without the SAMBA updates if that would correct the issue. They also were very interested in MOS and contacted the team for clarification of issues.

I would recommend their NAS's to all MOS users, they really are great!

Matt

[ Edited by matt3 on 2009/7/21 21:17 ]

Impressiev responses, both from the Team and QNap people! Really, really great, and quite a first in MorphOS history!

Well, frankly it has nothing to do with MorphOS per se.

It just happens that I also have worked on smbfs quite a bit and know my way around. It wasn't that hard to track down this bug and fix it.

Personally I've known about this problem for almost a year but since using ixemul 'cp' worked around it (now I know cp worked because it uses small writes) I had no real incentive to fix it, until now

[ Edited by Piru on 2009/7/22 10:14 ]

Hi Piru,

I was curious, can SMBFS be compiled for MOS?

Since I don't know how to patch a .diff, I will wait until you release it.

Kind regards,

Matt

Hmm :) I probably should have told Piru a while ago back when SMBFS stopped working with new Samba. Unfortunately SMBFS's author doesn't develop it any more, but I had no idea Piru would know how to fix the problem.

Panic over, Matt? The QNap's probably the best NAS on the market right now; I'd have hated to see you sell it for a simple (but very irritating) bug. It's so cutting edge, in fact, it's more liable to be incompatible with old software like SMBFS unfortunately!

I haven't been very annoyed with it so far because up to today my main Pegasos hard disk had died and I was waiting for a replacement. Luckily Piru's timing is perfect.

> it's more liable to be incompatible with old software like SMBFS unfortunately!

I wouldn't call April 2009 old ;-)

Hmm yeah, looks like Olaf has been updating it lately...

Hi Piru,

I suppose I should have asked what your best guess might be on it being released? I know your not the author, but I thought perhaps the author may have communicated that with you.

Regards,

Matt

Well, I have been having the same trouble with SMBFS myself. It used to work fine on MOS1.5 but since installing MOS2 it refuses to work.

Each time I try to run SMBFS, it just crashes. I've added my WindowsXP file server to the HOSTS file in envarc:sys/net (or whatever it was) but that doesn't help.

This is the only issue preventing me (for some months now) from purchasing a full copy of MOS2 as I cant live without access to my file server.

Hope it gets sorted soon or someone can give a clear description of what needs to be done to get SMBFS working.

just an update to my above post for anyone in the future who may be experiencing similar probs. Try to increase SMBFS' stack, it worked for me. :)

Quote:

Yeah, and it makes it working better even on MorphOS 1.4.5. It didn't crash without stack here either on 1.4.5, but it was still causing problems (slow uploading, occasional hangs on transfers etc). With MorphOS2.x problem just came more visible. So, in any case you should add stack for it no matter which OS you are using, as said many times here and other forums :)

Well, smbfs 1.74 is out now.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1001315

Thanks again Piru for all your help in this endevour.

1.74 copies files fine to my NAS.

Unfortunately, it only deletes select files and folders and generates:
"Object not found (#205)" and "object is in use (#202)"

I will contact the author...

Matt

Is really want to have a netwerk connection between my MorphOS-computer and my PC and IMAC.
Do I have to use Samba? Which version?
Is there a guide to install samba for mos?
Even the "samba for idiots guide" can't help me, as I don't know how to configure the built-in MOS TCP.

HELP!!!

Hi,

where can I found a morphos native version of smbfs?

on sourceforge there is only 68k and os4 of v1.74.

The 68k version is working here quite good with my Buffalo Linkstation, but I would prefer morphos native version, of course

On this site you will find a native version - but it's an alpha.....(and unfortunately I didn't get the beast running (neither samba nor swat)...maybe you've more luck!)

http://morphos.lukysoft.cz/en/vypis.php?kat=5

> On this site you will find a native version

There I can't find a MorphOS native version of smbfs, only smbfs v1.73 m68k version, which is not even the most recent version.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6371&forum=3&post_id=65255#65255

Oh - I thought he was looking for a PPC-native version of SAMBA...........my fault!