Re: USB Connecter

chedabob wrote:

SAMBA FTW!!! dont need no itunes lark, a samba share would be great.

Well, after a quick look, it appears the stock Samba binaries come in at about 26MB.

Presumably, there's some smaller embedded version somewhere.  It appears that "standard" DD-WRT has a Samba FS client, but not a server.

Re: USB Connecter

i just noticed that theres a mention of NFS. from what i remember, that is SAMBA.

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Re: USB Connecter

chedabob wrote:

i just noticed that theres a mention of NFS. from what i remember, that is SAMBA.

No - NFS (Network File System), which was developed by Sun, is entirely different from SMB (Server Message Block, aka CIFS (Common Internet File System)), developed by IBM and embraced/extended by Microsoft, for which Samba is a reverse-engineered, Open implementation.

Re: USB Connecter

i was reading wikipedia and it sounded identical.

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Re: USB Connecter

Well, they're "identical" only in the sense they're both network file systems, however, they are completely different protocols implementing (somewhat) similar functionality.

There are others - AFP (Apple Filing Protocol), AFS (Andrew File System), DCE/DFS (Distributed Computing Environment/Distributed File System), NCP (Netware Core Protocol), and more.

NFS is implemented because it's relatively standard in the Linux/UNIX world and was lightweight enough for the chumby.  Something like Samba is always a moving target because it's a reverse-engineered implementation of Microsoft's proprietary extensions to SMB/CIFS - indeed it sometimes seems that Microsoft goes out of its way to change their protocols to break Samba whenever it can.  We certainly don't want to get on that treadmill.

Re: USB Connecter

can you do NFS on windows? cos i know SMB works with linux, but i wondered how hard it would be to use NFS.

and what can be accessed with the current NFS system? the full tree (/sbin, /home, /usr, /var, /www) or only selected folders?

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Re: USB Connecter

NFS on Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/intero … fault.mspx

Requires XP Pro or better, however. [No home versions]

Then again, there are commercial NFS clients as well, Google for them and you'll find gobs.

Re: USB Connecter

chedabob wrote:

and what can be accessed with the current NFS system? the full tree (/sbin, /home, /usr, /var, /www) or only selected folders?

I believe we only have a NFS client, not a server - this means the chumby can mount shares from another machine, but not the other way around.  Ken can confirm.

Re: USB Connecter

oooh right. thats not so bad. its a shame it doesnt work both ways, but then again, you can sort of do that with ssh.

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