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Accessing files in a WLAN (MS environment)

I, as David living mostly in a MS world, and my solution to the problem of accessing files on my network is as follow.

1.
I run ISS (Internet Information Services) Server on one of may computers.
This server I can access from my LAN as well as from WLAN.

2.
Sharing file on a network where the computer running on windows OS, like Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP HE and Windows XP Pro, is not always an easy task. The Firewall on the XP is one tricky thing. And the same go for encryption on the WLAN, the smallest nominator for the different OS, I have found, is WEP.

3.
All the web sites I’m running on the server have very restrict access from outside, so I have one special web site where I have given out more access, and this is the one I use for drawing files from the LAN to my 770.

4.
Fore more extensive file-transfer I of cause use the USB-cabel.

Hopeful this will eventual pointing you in the right direction.

TTP

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Originally Posted by gnuite

If you can mount the NAS with NFS, then that's a possibility for accessing the NAS, and one advantage to this is that it acts transparently like any other part of the file system, so any tools that work with the file system (like the Images application) should be able to work fine.

I've had a few complications with mounting over NFS, though - firstly, you need root access to try anything at all, and loss of the wireless connection tends to uglify things (I've had trouble unmounting when the connection is not there, for example). Also, I've had issues playing large MP3 files (>200 kbps) over NFS, e.g. occasional audible clicks in playback.

I'd love to try and get automount working so that I don't have to remount every time I want to access an NFS directory, but I haven't even experimented with it; I don't even know if the necessary tools are available.

I have a Buffalo Linkstation NAS. These units actually run Linux and I understand that they can be hacked so that Linux applications can actually run on them. Don't know enough to know if this tidbit is of any value, but have posted it anyway, regardless of demonstrating potential ignorance...

The 770 uses gnome-vfs as a filesystem abstraction layer.

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GnomeVFS is a library that allows applications to transparently access various types of filesystems through a uniform interface. GnomeVFS modules include support for things such as WebDAV, ftp, local filesystem, gzip, bzip2, cdda, and others. GNOME VFS is currently used as one of the foundations of the Nautilus file manager

So hopefully, once these modules are incorporated, it will provide seemless access to any network attached storage system.

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Originally Posted by Wooky

Also, since someone said it can access Windows shares, I assume the N 770 has a working SMB client. Doing a GUI for these (or porting one) like Gnomba isn't difficult and should be available soon - someone could suggest this at maemo-devs list. But it would be heaps more intuitive if it was integrated in the file browser - it could search for shares (on demand please! ;) ) and also navigate by url, Konqueror style.

Samba clients can usually access the windows shares via browser. From my experience earlier this afternoon, they may look like the NFS shares I tried: basically like your basic FTP in a browser interface. The file manager sees NFS shares just like local files (you'll have to put the "mounted-to" directory in /home/user.) The "search" and "browse" will depend on whether smb:// is a "registered" protocol (in the browser.)

Is anyone else looking at the Debian-ARM Samba packages and the package conversion utility? It looks like the only real show-stopper may be the dependent packages' dependencies...

As a complete newbie here, I hope sombody figures this out.