Is there a way to create a drive icon for a network drive accessed via Samba?

Hmm, depends on what you mean...
If you mount drive with smbs as drive, you could just copy suitable disk.info there...

Or alternatively, if you would like to have default icon for every opened network drive...

For example mass storage devices are mounted usually as "UMSD:" (iirc) there should be similar "device name" for network drives I guess...

Just copy suitable icon to "ENVARC:sys/def_UMSDdisk.info" (that would create default icon for mass storage devices, just replace UMSD)

Just copy disk.info to network drive and off you go.

hooligan: I think I tried that and it didnt work.. I'll try again tonight.

It works for 100% - I'm using smbfs. I dropped disk.info to this drive, and after reset I got nice icon :)

I didnt like the idea of copying info files around to the network, so i made an arexx script
that scans all available samba shares and
creates def_ icons for them, so mounted disks
get icon without copying disk.info around.

Works for me..

I put a disk.info on the shared drives of my w*****s box and it works fine with smbfs.

whats weird.. I have my command to start samba in s:user-startup, yet when I reboot, SMBFS: is not mounted, as if it never ran. I will copy disk.info and check it out. thanks for all the replies fellow Morphians. LOL.

ok, I tried it.. I created... def_SMBFSdisk.info and just for the heck
of it, def_SMBFS.info ...after I mount the network drive I see no icon
for the samba drive on the Ambient desktop.. it does have disk.info in
it also.

In ENVARC: I do see the def_* files I created, and yes I rebooted
also.

Hey Could one of you please please do a nice tutorial on getting MOS setup with SAMBA and PCs? This would be very valuable to the community..

magnetic

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 HP
It 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

I do use smbfs... run >NIL: SMBFS workgroup= etc etc..

Also the "Volume" Option? (afair it is necessary for having an Icon under Workbench/Ambient)

that did it! I had no volume name.. Thanks for the help! :)

Hello guys and girls,

I just read the part about having these def-icons for the shares.

I just copied a disk.info to Env:SYS/ as def_SMBFS.info

Opened a share with the smbfs-tool.

I don't see the newly created def-icon?

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Spidey

@Spidey

repeating myself:

Just copy disk.info to network drive and off you go.

@ Bladerunner

Yeah, smbfs rules!

Hi hooligan,

Sorry, I wasn't clear with my post.

I know with just a copied disk.info on the share it works in Ambient.
I'm more curious about the option of having a def_icon in ENV:Sys and all mounted shares get it as icon picture in Ambient.

Bye,

Spidey

Edit:

Just got it working. I didn't read Jupp3's notation correctly
With def_SMBFS0disk.info in ENV:SYS, mounted shares with smbfs are displayed correctly

Use def_DEVICEdisk.info where DEVICE is the device/volume(?) you use for your mounted shares, you can use SnoopDos to check which def icons Ambient tries to open.

Hello Bladerunner,

Until now I have to fill in the the hostnames in DataBase->Hosts of all shared computers. Otherwise I get an error with swat.

This part is not stated in the manual (or I need other glasses )

Bye,

Spidey

BTW anyone else that couldn't live without smbfs..? rocks! :)

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I sure can live without Samba... Got everything on my Pegasos

Ok, After reading this thread I thought I had to tell you something that will make your life easier

Rafo is developping a very interesting tool that uses samba and smbfs. The aim is to vanish any shell usage and any configuration for the user. You only have to launch the tool and it will show you computers on the networks then the list of shared folders and the choosen computer... et voila

This tool already work, but he is reworking it to use MUI.

I'm using it and it is really great !!

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He has implemented voice recognition? COOL!

This is the most utterly coolest thing i've heard of lately.
One small problem would be if anyone tell jokes around you or people laughing or you watch
a movie in mplayer and someone laughs. Samba icon attack all over desktop

Abit annoying, but if the voice recognition is advanced enough, it should pinpoint your voice
and ignore the rest.