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rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 19 Dec 2010, 20:57 Post subject:

@sheldonisaac: And thank you for all your testing. Yours is one of the worst-case scenarios, so I am happy that we have resolved it.

I think that I will leave v1.3 alone for now. I will put a note in the how-to warning Win9X users that the share and server names are case-sensitive.

Bill

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 24 Dec 2010, 10:06 Post subject:

YASSM v1.5 is now available above. It has a new feature for hiding passwords in the samba-select share database.

There may be rare situations where samba-login cannot locate a share by its name. But the share should still be mountable using the option ip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.

I am still looking for people who can test YASSM with Vista or Win7 shares.

Thanks.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2673 Location: Japan

Tested samba-login of YASSM-1.5.pet.

Windows 7, Users
Windows Xp, SharedDocs

Both set up open for public, everyone required no password.
Both successfully mounted without username, pasword nor Options.
I only input Server name and Share name.
Test performed on Lupu-517.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2673 Location: Japan

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 28 Dec 2010, 07:58 Post subject: Re: UTF-8 file names

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2673 Location: Japan

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3192 Location: The Blue Marble

shinobar, is your LOCALE set to enable utf8? I found out that even with iocharset=utf8, if your locale not set to utf8, then winxp shared folders with unicode filenames will not properly. In my case, I had to ensure that my LANG setting is en_AU.utf8 instead of just en_AU.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2673 Location: Japan

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2673 Location: Japan

Sorry, the ROX-Filer needed to refresh.
No problem with Japanese file names if i add iocharset=utf8 option. Very Happy

Local: LupQ-511 + lang_pack_cjk
Remote: Both Samba on Linux, Windows Xp

Hope iocharset=utf8 option as the default.
Pnethood has iocharset=utf8 option for years and seems harmless.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 28 Dec 2010, 15:21 Post subject: Re: UTF-8 filename OK

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 153

This is a wonderful little pet. It works perfectly on my Windows XP LAN.

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Samba to share files between machines running puppy? I use ftp for this now, but this is much more limited than actually mounting the remote drive.

rcrsn51

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 153

My Windows LAN uses simple file sharing with open shares.

One interesting observation. If I mount via samba share select, the path to the mounted file system goes via /root/samba. If I mount with pnethood, the path is direct, e.g., /mnt/network/host/share, whereas the samba share select mount has the path /root/Samba/share. This is somewhat inconvenient as the user has to keep this "small detour" in mind when accessing the share with the command line or a file manager.

This should, perhaps, be mentioned in the instructions.

Thanks for the link to Samba-TNG. I will experiment with this asap. This is, I think, very important. It is one thing to maintain compatibility with Windows because we have to deal with Windows computers and quite another to have to rely on ftp because there is no other way for puppy computers to talk to one another.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 04 Jan 2011, 12:50 Post subject:

kennardly · Joined: 12 Feb 2011 Posts: 4

Is there a way to auto mount the shares at boot ?
Thanks for any response.
Love puppy linux!