Hi everybody,

for Amiga OS 4 there seems to be a SMB2 port now. Would it be possible to implement this for Morphos as well?

[ Editiert durch gothor 30.12.2022 - 10:14 ]

It's planned for MorphOS 3.18:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13474&forum=9&start=9

Thx for the answer.

Maybe the m68k version works on MorphOS:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=113017

I should work as a stopgap solution, but beware, only 7-bit ASCII file names will work for now.

AFAICT, the 68k port uses the classic mount mechanism via mountfiles and/or DOSDrivers mount path while the new SMB2/3 support for MorphOS will be more or less a drop-in replacement for the old smbfs command and have a compatible way to launch it, so even if you manage to get the 68K version working, it is calling for trouble once you want to return to the native support in the forthcoming MorphOS update.
So if you want to try it, do whatever floats your boat but be aware that it is definitely a stopgap solution only and might cause headache once you update your system.

UPDATE: Checked it and it appears that filesysbox.library are wholly incompatible, so it is unlikely that the 68k version will work at all. The 68k version will just outright crash as far as I can tell.

Also, do NOT attempt to replace the MorphOS filesysbox.library with the 68k build. If you do that, you will break all MorphOS filesystems that use the library.

[ Edited by Piru 04.01.2023 - 12:48 ]

So they ported filesysbox.library from MorphOS without compatibility. Not nice.

I am not pointing fingers to any direction, the history and origin of these incompatibilities is unknown to me. End results however is two libraries with the same name that are incompatible.

The initial port was API compatible, then the library became closed source on MorphOS, and the APIs drifted apart after a decade of separate development. I'm not saying this changes the end result, but extending the API differently on different platforms is not the same as "porting without compatibility", especially when we are talking about a closed source library.