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Re: connections limit?

#61 Post by jrb »

tubeguy wrote:Is there a limit to the number of connections that can be made to PupServer? I'm thinking about using it at work as a simple file server (no printing) and we have 10 users.
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I just tried it on my lunch hour, 1 pupserver, 10 clients, no problem. :D Mind you I didn't have them all transfering files at one time, so who knows?

Good Luck, J

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Re: connections limit?

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jrb wrote:
tubeguy wrote:Is there a limit to the number of connections that can be made to PupServer? I'm thinking about using it at work as a simple file server (no printing) and we have 10 users.
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I just tried it on my lunch hour, 1 pupserver, 10 clients, no problem. :D Mind you I didn't have them all transfering files at one time, so who knows?

Good Luck, J
Awesome, thanks. Just ran our app on my home Windows XP box and it's happy as a clam pulling the database from PupServer. Now just have to build a box with a fast hard drive and see what it will do over the work network.
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Re: connections limit?

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tubeguy wrote:Awesome, thanks. Just ran our app on my home Windows XP box and it's happy as a clam pulling the database from PupServer.
Is this a situation where multiple users will be doing simultaneous read/writes to the same database?

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Re: connections limit?

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rcrsn51 wrote:
tubeguy wrote:Awesome, thanks. Just ran our app on my home Windows XP box and it's happy as a clam pulling the database from PupServer.
Is this a situation where multiple users will be doing simultaneous read/writes to the same database?
Yes but only 3 to 5 users at one time.
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#65 Post by pemasu »

Having problems when I try to umount /mnt/network/PUPSERVER/usr=root passwd=woofwoof
Also /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown hangs 5 minutes when shuttind down or rebooting the client computer. And I havent figured out how to umount share name which has space in it`s name.
How would you umount that cifs share in commandline and how would you do that using rox-filer, cause the rox right click Umount script also fails.

Oh yeah. First time testing Pupserver and it works as cifs share server great in our living room computer box, which works as digital tv and digital tv recording machine. I can browse the records and watch them when I boot the comp from live cd.

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#67 Post by jason.b.c »

I'm having a bit of trouble installing pupserver on an old machine..

I installed (full) , which went fine until the part where you install grub, where's the grub (grub config) installer??

LOL should I have installed frugal? , what's the benefit to that?

would installing frugal allow the use/installation of grub4dos?

I never bothered to use grub4dos , doesn't it require a fat32 partition (possibly dumb question there)
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#68 Post by jason.b.c »

ok nevermind on the previous , how are ya supossed to access pupserver over lan? over internet???

i'm confused...
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#69 Post by jrb »

jason.b.c wrote:ok nevermind on the previous , how are ya supossed to access pupserver over lan? over internet???

i'm confused...
Hi Jason,
Pupserver is a lan server only. I didn't build in any webserver capacity.

To access it on your network just boot up Pupserver and then on your other Puppy machines use Pnethood. On Windows machines it will show up in My Computer automatically.

You should see Pupserver listed in Pnethood with a share named "user=root password=woofwoof". Enter "root" and "woofwoof" in the appropriate slots and click "Show" and you should be looking at the / directory of Pupserver with links to all your drives.

I built in automatic ethernet connection through eth0 and so far it has worked on every machine I've tried but you might have to connect manually with the connection wizard in some cases.

I also included SSH (on the internet menu) but I'm hardly an expert with that. See:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SshWithPuppy
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13357
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Hope that is helpful. Good Luck, J

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#70 Post by jason.b.c »

what about a debian or ubuntu system???


i've tried on both...
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jason.b.c wrote:what about a debian or ubuntu system?? i've tried on both...
I was curious to see how an Ubuntu client would detect a Puppy Samba server, so I installed Ubuntu 10.10.

1. On the top menu bar, there is a Places option.
2. Under that, I selected Network.
3. Ubuntu did not immediately detect the Puppy server, so I chose File > Connect to Server.
4. Under Service Type, I chose Windows Share
5. I entered the Puppy server name, the share name and the login info.
6. Ubuntu opened the share successfully.
7. Eventually, Ubuntu auto-detected the Puppy server by its workgroup name and showed it under Network.

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#72 Post by jason.b.c »

rcrsn51 wrote:
jason.b.c wrote:what about a debian or ubuntu system?? i've tried on both...
I was curious to see how an Ubuntu client would detect a Puppy Samba server, so I installed Ubuntu 10.10.

1. On the top menu bar, there is a Places option.
2. Under that, I selected Network.
3. Ubuntu did not immediately detect the Puppy server, so I chose File > Connect to Server.
4. Under Service Type, I chose Windows Share
5. I entered the Puppy server name, the share name and the login info.
6. Ubuntu opened the share successfully.
7. Eventually, Ubuntu auto-detected the Puppy server by its workgroup name and showed it under Network.
Ok , I must be missing something somewhere.., what would the Puppy server name be and how do i create the "share" , I know how to do that in say like Freenas.
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jason.b.c wrote:what would the Puppy server name be and how do i create the "share"
The Share name is PUPSERVER and the share is automatically created by Pupserver and is named usr=root passwd=woofwoof. I named it that to make it obvious what the username and password are.

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#74 Post by jason.b.c »

jrb wrote:
jason.b.c wrote:what would the Puppy server name be and how do i create the "share"
The Share name is PUPSERVER and the share is automatically created by Pupserver and is named usr=root passwd=woofwoof. I named it that to make it obvious what the username and password are.
it's still not working for me...

i'll try to post a screenshot... .
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#75 Post by jason.b.c »

hope they show up..

did i do this right??
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#76 Post by rcrsn51 »

Your screenshot is showing a "Windows Network" icon on your desktop. What do you see if you open it up?

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#77 Post by jason.b.c »

rcrsn51 wrote:Your screenshot is showing a "Windows Network" icon on your desktop. What do you see if you open it up?
pretty much nothing..
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#78 Post by rcrsn51 »

In my instructions above for Step 5, just enter the server name. Leave the share name and other fields blank.

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#79 Post by jrb »

jason.b.c wrote:
jrb wrote:
jason.b.c wrote:what would the Puppy server name be and how do i create the "share"
The Share name is PUPSERVER and the share is automatically created by Pupserver and is named usr=root passwd=woofwoof. I named it that to make it obvious what the username and password are.
it's still not working for me...

i'll try to post a screenshot... .
Hi Jason,
I presume you clicked on "Windows Network" in the Network Browser and didn't see Pupserver?

Perhaps I have made a mistake in naming the share usr=root passwd=woofwoof. Can't imagine why I left that space in the middle. :roll: Here's what to try:
Go to /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf which contains:

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# Share
   [usr=root passwd=woofwoof]
Change the share name to usr=root_passwd=woofwoof or anything else that doesn't have a space in it and save. Then open a terminal window and type

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samba restart
Then go back to Ubuntu or Debian, refresh or restart the Network browser and see if you can connect to Pupserver.

Best of Luck, J

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#80 Post by rcrsn51 »

I also suspected that the space in the share name would cause problems, but it doesn't here.

Ubuntu is very slow to detect a Puppy server in Windows Network. (This is true with both Samba-TNG and Pupserver-435.)

But when I ran Connect to Server and just entered the server name, Ubuntu found the "usr=root passwd=woofwoof" share and opened it.

Eventually, it also also found the server under Windows Network.

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