N900 connecting Samba/Ubuntu/Wi-fi
 

How to connect my N900 to Samba on Ubuntu over Wifi?

Thank you for help.
Magnar

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any ideas? also interested in this thanks in advance

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There's a kernel module kicking around to support smb. Risky... potential problems. Unnecessary.

There's another option though.

Setup openssh server on your n900. Have a root terminal and change the root password is highly recommended.

Then from say ubuntu or similar gnome system, create a launcher with the command of;

You can further advance the command depending;

IF you have the memory card. Otherwise use this next one.


Now. The speed of this is soooo much slower then a usb 2.0 port.

Re: N900 connecting Samba/Ubuntu/Wi-fi
 

the fact that we can use SSH is a pretty good thing, but the lame excuses in order to not provide samba option is bullcrap. Sometimes it is needed

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You can also mount the samba share to the directory /media/Remote_Filesystems/SomeDirectory.

I initially had problems mounting the samba share (see thread http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=95), but it works fine now.

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In my experience Samba does not cope well with an unstable link so there are good reasons to avoid it wherever possible.

There is also the security issue, by default it could let anyone else connected to the same cell tower as you browse your shares.

Fact is, by making it hard to install Samba (at least as a server) then it means only the people who REALLY know what they are doing will do so. As already mentioned, the module to support connecting to shares is readily available but only in extras-devel I believe as its not something you want kicking around a novices N900. Personally I have not tried SMB shares yet as I suspect it would be a real problem when you forget and roam out of WiFi range, its not something SMB was ever designed to cope with.

Connecting to Samba has always been problematic for me even in Windows, if you are using WiFi and the link suddenly drops it tends to hang the share, or if the network takes slightly longer than expected to come up it fails to reconnect your mapped drives. Quite frankly its just a royal PITA so I can understand why Nokia are discouraging its use.

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Wizard Mounter

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I found this before I figured it out my self, so I know this thread is old, but incase anyone else runs in to this thread, the app I found for mounting SMB shares is midnight commander and it's currently in extras :)