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How to get at NAS disk to work with MorphOS?

Nadir

# 41
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 157 from 2003/3/17

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catohagen wrote:
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connor wrote:
@ catohagen

> With the new Netstack now in Morphos, one morphos dev (piru?) got 45-50 megabytes/s on local FTP transfers.

but FTP is not Samba. There must be a reason why Samba is so slow. I also have very low speed.

In my case, Netstack was always slow so when Roadshow68k was released I did some tests with Roadshow and adjusting and tuning parameters on both the stack and samba, transfer speeds flew up.

I haven't done any benchmarking of smbfs but when I updated Netstack some time ago, I did quite a few comparisons with Roadshow68k and Miami. Netstack came out on top or equal in all cases. Note that Netstack is based on a newer core than both of these and of course also supports window scaling. Did you by the way play around with the advanced options in Netstack as well when fine tuning for smbfs performance?

Nicholai
»21.11.14 - 00:45

rms

# 42
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 599 from 2004/11/27

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catohagen wrote:
Samba also have parameters you can adjust, setting the tcp buffer to 8192 might help, and Im sure I adjusted some register values on Windows7 that had effect.

On my nas, i downgraded Samba there to an older version, and adjusted buffer values aswell. Samba on linux I guess are more resource hungry on later versions, installing a 2.x.x improved transfers.

For Roadshow, i wrote an arexx installer that had options for adjusting the different parameters based on your network, the installer also helps turning on/off or switching betweeen Netstack and Roadshow as tcp stack...

Atleast in my case, both a Mac mini and Powerbook G4 with Roadshow 'maxed out' on network performance between a Win7 machine and Samba68k 2.2.5 server on Morphos 3.2, getting 9-10mb/s on the 100mbit ethernet on Mac mini and over 30mb/s on the gigabit ethernet on the Powerbook G4, copying files back and fourth.

So you think that I need to use rather Samba if I want to get more speed then the 3 MB/s to write files to a NAS or to a win7 machine? I use a PM 2.7 GHz

I tried to copy a single 1 GB file from a win7 machine to the NAS over a GB LAN, this gave a 40 to 50 MB/s speed, then the other way round, from NAS to win7 gave about 80 to 90 MB/s! Well it should be possible under MorphOS with a GB LAN to reach at least 20 to 30 MB/s speed (read/write), that's a 3rd what win7 does.

About Netstack in MorphOS, do you have any advice about best settings?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Christoph
»21.11.14 - 05:49

Cool_amigaN

# 43
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2011/11/30

I have a Seagate Central 2TB NAS and I have created the below script, following the instructions on the 1st page of the thread:

WaitForPort NETSTACK
Run > NIL: smbfs cache=12288 workgroup=WORKGROUP user=xxx password=xxx service=//192.xxx.x.xx/CENTRAL/Public volume=NAS:

Since nothing happen when I double click it, obviously I have misconfigure something and I suspect it has to do with the workgroup.
My first question is: Does a NAS comes up with a default workgroup name? I have tried googling it but without any sold answer (in the script I used my workgroup name from Win7, I also tried with SEAGATEGROUP but without any luck).
I can login to the NAS admin page through Odyssey but there is no option regarding it.
Btw, the remote access to Seagate webpage doesn't work. Throws up a 35 SSL error instead :(
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»07.03.15 - 21:22

bash64

# 44
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Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29

From: USA

Windows default workgroup name is WORKGROUP.
You should be able to set this in your NAS interface.
For windows xp I think they changed it to MSHOME.
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»07.03.15 - 22:08

Cool_amigaN

# 45
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Posts: 746 from 2011/11/30

Ha! It worked! First of all, it seems that Seagate has removed the option to alter the workgroup name from the web-ui of their nas, lol! Thankfully, it is by default workgroup :P Anyway, the problem was coming from the ip at the service entry of my script. Though it's correct, once I removed it it mounted the nas :)
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»07.03.15 - 23:00

bash64

# 46
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Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29

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ok, is the hostname of your nas 'CENTRAL'?
That means you had an IP and a hostname (to be resolved by DNS) in the same line.
Removing one or the other would fix the issue.
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»08.03.15 - 04:06