Thanks again guys, it's great to have so many willing to help.

I think my syntax and usage is correct but my NAS is the issue.

Thanks to Kenny on the MorphOS team emails, he also has a NAS from QNAP and found that the latest Samba security updates caused the same issues for him.

Hopefully the manufacturer can provide suitable firmware to me.

Until then I would be willing to help test any newer release for SMBFS or SMB=Handler.

Thanks again!

Matt

> Until then I would be willing to help test any newer release for
> [...] SMB=Handler.

Latest version of SMB-Connect is now 10 years old. I doubt there will ever be any newer release.

> I created a new admin account with a password and it still prompts
> you twice for the password and after the 2nd attempt give you a
> socket access from NAS1 denied! Access denied! [...] Any more ideas?

From the SMB-Connect webpage:

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Problems while connect to share with error "socket access denied" in most cases result of these points
1. The password must be uppercase (important in connection with NT-server)!
2. the sharename must be uppercase!
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I am glad to hear that you are able to use it, but until some specific instructions are provided outlining how to install Samba (I know how to configure it) I will still be dead in the water..

I have asked for specific install instructions at least twice in this thread and have received things like "It isn't hard" as a response... This is probably accurate, but not really helpful if I don't know HOW to do it..

Hence the reason for my asking!

Well ok, but people see the title of thread and read the posts, it's about the client. Sounds like what you're interested in is the server part? Remind me, what is your setup? (and if you didn't notice, I already provided installation instructions for smbclient)

I am interested in using Samba so I can copy files from my Efika to my other PC's on my network... I would also like to copy files from my other PC's to the Efika...

If this entails the use of the server portion than I would like that as well...

Yes I did see your post about copying to the C: drive, but then what?
Once again please forgive me as I am a SERIOUSLY new newbie to Morph..

Thanks!

This is what I use to mount my windows shares if needed.

smbfs workgroup=MSHEIMNETZ device=smb2 service=//192.168.0.110/SharedDocs/ volume=ASharedDocs

Geit

Do you really need the entire samba package? Try if smbfs your needs:

1. Download the smbfs.lha archive.
2. Put the unpacked smbfs program in your c
3. Read the supplied documentation, which is very straight forward, down to the point, easy to understand, etc.
4. Start the smbfs program with the options that is relevant for you. For instance:

Quote:

All the options are discussed in the documentation...

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Luckily there's another thread here on MorphZone covering this. Also on the left you should have a search field you can use to find such threads.

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Mkay... C: is not a drive, it is an assign pointing to SYS:C, that is the default location for third party cli/shell commands, smbclient is a command line utility. But read through that other thread and post followup questions there.

OK THANKS to all three of you guys that responded to my last post...
Now I will need to take the time to sift through what you guys have provided... I will check this out tonight (hopefully) and circle back later this week..

Thanks again for the info and your continued patience!

> Download the smbfs.lha archive.

Is there a reason for recommending such old version instead of a later one?

Quote:

That's what friends (and this forum) is for!

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And remember to add some stack before running it or you'll get more or less problems at some point. "stack 32768" for example.

hi

just Google'd the QNAP now that's an expensive bit of kit
i had to make do with a old 1ghz itx board with 3few old drives running:
Clarkconnect seems to work fine with all my set-ups

but you would think the manufac's would keep it up2date....

sorry i am no help to you....

Hi Everyone,

Was able to flash the Qnap NAS 119 with an old firmware with the hope to correct my access problems. Alas it still won't connect via SMB-net with the same password issues and SMBFS still gives object in use errors.

Thanks Andreas_Wolf I make everything caps with the same results, but I never noticed that.

Your right montymole, I thought by buying a more expensive NAS that was rated excellent for connectivity I would saved myself headaches.

I will try to work with QNAP to provide a solution but, I highly doubt that they will put any time into the issue. My only real hope is for Olaf to correct SMBFS. I do wish that MOS developers would put some real effort into modern networking capabilities.

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...