external lan disk / hard drive?

[Martin S.]

Is it possible to attach a LAN disk like a freecom SL Network Drive
160 GB?
How does this work?
Is it done with samba?
How is the speed? Is it much slower than the normal disk?

JMS

[Peter Brown]

Hi Martin

Post by Martin S.
Is it possible to attach a LAN disk like a freecom SL Network Drive
160 GB?

Not sure about the above but generally speaking Yes.

Post by Martin S.
How does this work?

The LAN disk usually has an embedded linux operating system - and Yes, a
version of samba.

Post by Martin S.
Is it done with samba?
How is the speed? Is it much slower than the normal disk?
JMS

I think speed varies from device to device. I used to have an NSLU2 with
a USB drive attached which was maybe a touch slower than I would have
liked but not the reason for sacking it.

I got rid of the NSLU2 simply because of the difficulties of using the
device for most of my users. They wanted to drag'n'drop files into their
areas of the drive but the samba used would not cooperate as well as it
should have.

You will probably find the freecom device similar in that respect with
no support for EAs at all and difficult to use with the Peer File and
Print GUI.

Regards

Pete

[jp]

Post by Peter Brown
Hi Martin

Post by Martin S.
Is it possible to attach a LAN disk like a freecom SL Network Drive
160 GB?

Not sure about the above but generally speaking Yes.

Post by Martin S.
How does this work?

The LAN disk usually has an embedded linux operating system - and Yes, a
version of samba.

I'm hoping to put together some sort of NAS server since there are
recent devlopments of Samba for OS/2, but I can't get anywhere setting
it up.


If anyone wants to give the latest version a try you can get it here


http://svn.netlabs.org/samba


If you get it going, please tell me what you did.

Post by Peter Brown

Post by Martin S.
Is it done with samba?
How is the speed? Is it much slower than the normal disk?
JMS

I think speed varies from device to device. I used to have an NSLU2 with
a USB drive attached which was maybe a touch slower than I would have
liked but not the reason for sacking it.
I got rid of the NSLU2 simply because of the difficulties of using the
device for most of my users. They wanted to drag'n'drop files into their
areas of the drive but the samba used would not cooperate as well as it
should have.
You will probably find the freecom device similar in that respect with
no support for EAs at all and difficult to use with the Peer File and
Print GUI.
Regards
Pete

[Peter Brown]

Hi jp

Post by jp

Post by Peter Brown
Hi Martin

Post by Martin S.
Is it possible to attach a LAN disk like a freecom SL Network Drive
160 GB?

Not sure about the above but generally speaking Yes.

Post by Martin S.
How does this work?

The LAN disk usually has an embedded linux operating system - and Yes,
a version of samba.

I'm hoping to put together some sort of NAS server since there are
recent devlopments of Samba for OS/2, but I can't get anywhere setting
it up.

I've given up on embedded linux mini boxes running samba.

For full compatibility with my network I have a
mouse/keyboard/monitor-less system box running Warp4 fp15+. No silly
lack of EA support problems and my users can use File and Print Client
GUI to access their files on that server.

If I need to do anything with the server - shutdown, reboot etc - I use
remote control software, NetOp, to control the server from my system.

Not as quiet and consumes more power than the Linksys NSLU2 it replaced
but it works much better :-)

Regards

Pete

Post by jp
If anyone wants to give the latest version a try you can get it here
http://svn.netlabs.org/samba
If you get it going, please tell me what you did.

Post by Peter Brown

Post by Martin S.
Is it done with samba?
How is the speed? Is it much slower than the normal disk?
JMS

I think speed varies from device to device. I used to have an NSLU2
with a USB drive attached which was maybe a touch slower than I would
have liked but not the reason for sacking it.
I got rid of the NSLU2 simply because of the difficulties of using the
device for most of my users. They wanted to drag'n'drop files into
their areas of the drive but the samba used would not cooperate as
well as it should have.
You will probably find the freecom device similar in that respect with
no support for EAs at all and difficult to use with the Peer File and
Print GUI.
Regards
Pete

[Chuck McKinnis]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:31:28 UTC, "Martin S."

Post by Martin S.
Is it possible to attach a LAN disk like a freecom SL Network Drive
160 GB?
How does this work?
Is it done with samba?
How is the speed? Is it much slower than the normal disk?
JMS

I have a SimpleTech 160Gb SimpleShare attached and access it via Peer
and NFS from eCS, WinXP, and Linux. The disk is the same speed as most
IDE drives. The access is limited to network speed.

[Martin S.]

Post by Chuck McKinnis
I have a SimpleTech 160Gb SimpleShare attached and access it via Peer
and NFS from eCS, WinXP, and Linux. The disk is the same speed as most
IDE drives. The access is limited to network speed.

Thank you, sounds interesting.
What do you mean with "peer"?

JMS

[Chuck McKinnis]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 06:46:47 UTC, "Martin S."

Post by Martin S.

Post by Chuck McKinnis
I have a SimpleTech 160Gb SimpleShare attached and access it via Peer
and NFS from eCS, WinXP, and Linux. The disk is the same speed as most
IDE drives. The access is limited to network speed.

Thank you, sounds interesting.
What do you mean with "peer"?
JMS

Normal OS/2 file and print client.