Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 418 from 2004/2/19
TheMagicM:
I am afraid just Samba isn`t enough.
You need another tool which actually "mounts" your Win share
for your Ambient Desktop, samba itself seems to provide just basic shell
based sharing tools.
There are severel tools, to do this Job, smb-handler, Tango or smbfs.
On my Miggy I use smb-handler, which unfortunatelly does not work correctly, same goes
(at least for me) with Tango.
The only tool which works corect is smbfs, you will find the latest Version 1.60
On Aminet.
Magnetic:
It is not necessary to invent the wheel a second time
There is allready a good place which describes how to "network"
using Samba on Amiga:
Amigasamba HPIt also has a cute Samba Install script, which makes life much easier.
One little note perhaps, If you want to share just in one direction (As I do)
meaning you just want your win drive be accesable under Ambient, (But then invissible under Windows)
All the messing with Samba isn`t necessary, You just need smbfs.
The doc for smbfs explains very well how to set it up.
You can use it either via shell or through an Icon with Tooltypes set.
Here a little Example, Lets assume you have a Network, calles MYNET, Your PC has the Name DOSE,
Your login Name is PEGASOS, your Password PWD and the drive to share is named PC0. The Name under
Ambient should be Dose.
So you have to set 5 Tooltypes:
Workgroup
User
Password
Volume
Service
For our example you will set:
Workgroup=MYNET
User=PEGASOS
Password=PWD
Volume=DOSE
Service=//DOSE/PC0
(please have a look on the tooltypes "Volume" and "Service" in the manual)
I hope this is usefull and please ignore my bad English