Hello! I have bought a Seagate Free Agent GoFlex Home 2TB NAS (NTFS formatted). I have connected it to my router and installed the required software at my Win/PC box, created relative account/password etc., correctly. I would like to access my files through PMac/MorphOS 3.1. Is it possible? How do I do it? I have searched the web but got no usable results.

First of all. The file system does not matter when using a NAS. The NAS is a standalone computer which has the file system on board. You could even use XFS or EXT4 and would work (if the NAS supports such file systems).

You need the tool SMBFS.

smbfs workgroup=MSHEIMNETZ service=//192.168.0.152/ShareName/ volume=NASStorage user=geit password=xxyyzz

Just adapt the ip, sharename, user and password and it should mount properly unless it is using some unsupported SMB features.

Geit

And if SMBFS doesn't work, then it apparently should support FTP and HTTP to access it, just hope they're properly implemented.. I've seen pretty bad FTP server on some cheap NAS too :)

The problem is not a bad implementation, but the ftp "standard" itself.

It is 100% text based. So any client is requesting a file list which can be in any order and format and needs to be parsed, which sometimes is quite hard.

I did some changes to Transfer (MorphOS FTP client) myself to support my crappy NAS and make parsing more flexible and fail save, but there are still millions of ways to make it fail.

Geit

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Good news, i have problem to list FTP files on my DLINK DNS320 (no file appears).
Works with ATC.

I guess thats a different problem. Just select edit for all entries and select "passive mode".

Geit

@Geit

Where I can find this tool (SMBFS) in MorphOS? Also, shouldn't I changed the workgroup name?

Just get the 68K version from Aminet. There is also some slightly fixed version for reading (??) >2GB files, but no clue if that one is still available.

SMBFS for sure needs a major rework. The biggest issues (beside 2GB limit) is the faulty pattern match bug and that you canot mount multiple drives without destroying data.

It is about time to port FuseSMB, as we have a cool interface for Fuse for quite some time.

Geit


[ Edited by geit 16.01.2013 - 16:55 ]

> There is also some slightly fixed version for reading (??) >2GB files,
> but no clue if that one is still available.

Fab once semi-announced it for MorphOS 3.0, but as far as I can tell it hasn't been released yet.

Well, you mean that I won't be able to stream 720p movies (files >2GB)?

Cool_amigaN,
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yes, it simply aborts when reaching that location. My PS2 is reacting the same as it is unable to deal with 2GB files, too.

Geit

Bummer, then it's meaningless to start the procedure at the first place... Hope situation improves in the future.