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expert needed to make cifs work

#1 Post by HairyWill »

cifs appears to be the future

My debian install has a cifs.ko at about 200k, smbmount in puppy is 800k so it looks like cifs would save some space.

If it simply a case of building the module and dropping it I wonder if anyone out there with a kernel build environment would be willing to oblige.

some reading
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.file-systems. ... 00002.html

I've never done kernel/module compiling before. Should no-one respond I'm sure I'll get there.........slowly.
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#2 Post by muggins »

Hwill,

you don't spec your pupversion?

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#3 Post by HairyWill »

ah yes
for the standard 3.01 would be preferable, thank you
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#4 Post by Béèm »

Would cifs also be capable of reading from/writing to a CD/DVD-RW like it can be done with UDF?
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#5 Post by HairyWill »

The Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a format specification of a file system for storing files on optical media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format


from the link I provided in the pnethood thread
CIFS VFS - Advanced Common Internet File System for Linux
The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later.
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/

no connection........I think.
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#6 Post by Leachim »

CIFS is usually used as a replacement for the samba-client to connect to Windows-based computers over a network. Windows itself offers SMB and CIFS, so both attempts should work.

Windows Server 2003 has some encryption options that make connections to such servers very hard - I do not have enough knowlegde to say, whether this problems can be solved or not.

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#7 Post by black »

Hey HW,

Just for kicks I grabbed the "kernel-src_301.sfs) several days ago, and ran a re-compile using the included ".config" file, and it produced all the modules, those that do/don't come w normal puppy.

The standard puppy install is missing several modules that I use regularly...cifs, hwmon, and some i2c stuff, that has forced me to use the 2.6.18.1 kernel/modules from puppy-2.15ce, but now, am able to use the 2.6.21.7 kernel w any module I please.

Borrowed a "/sbin/mount.cifs" executeable from a debian distro, loaded the proper module, pulled up rxvt, plugged in a few commands, and was accessing window shares, no sweat.

Just wanted folks aware that modules are available for puppy, at least the puppy-301.

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#8 Post by HairyWill »

black,
Thanks for that, this was what I was hoping. How big is the module? This can be put in the zdrv and smbmount should no longer be necessary in pup_xxx.sfs. I will ask Barry to include it in the next dingo alpha.
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#9 Post by black »

Hey HW,

Module is 269 kb...yeah, I know, 200 k bigger than smbfs, but worth the better/easier (my feeling) win access.

cheers,

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#10 Post by HairyWill »

black
any chance of you PMing me the module rather than me having to build it myself.
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#11 Post by black »

HW, PM went w attachment, never use a PM function before, all guesswork, let me know if I broke it or ???

EDIT: Tried the PM again...+ e-mail

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#12 Post by HairyWill »

received with thanks
for future reference the source for mount.cifs is available here
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs/cifs_download.html
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