Hi guys been looking through some threads and although I came across Wizard mounter, was wondering if anyone has used it on the N900? Also if not do you know of a different way to mount network shares on the N900?

I would also like to see Wizard Mounter or something like it for the N900.

Try the later pages of http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38536, it looks like they're able to mount CIFS shares. I don't know if there is a fancy GUI yet, though, as I'm not following their progress very closely (I don't need to mount CIFS yet).

-jkq

I think I saw Samba in the dev repository

i recompiled the kernel with nokia config following some guide in the wiki and enabled cifs.ko before the recent os upgrade. The module loaded fine and i was able to use mount -t cifs //server/share /localdir -o username=yadda,passwd=yadda to access my shares. have not done this for the newer kernel but plan to do so tomorrow if time parmits. Is there a doumented way to provide additional kernel modules as a .deb package for a clean distribution, if yes I'd make it available via garage.maemo.org. Otherwise i can just attach the module to this thread.
I never used wizard mounter, does it do cifs in userspace or wouldn't it also need a kernel module to mount stuff?

Well, I would have some time, however can't update my SDK with the latest updgrade and thus not build the kernel/module Will have to wait for a week i guess as I'm quite busy beside the weekends...

had an hour left, just built the cifs.ko for the pr1.1 upgraded kernel. I'll attach the module, however be warned that all I tested up to now is that it can be loaded with insmod. I have no samba share here at the moment, so was unable to actually test mounting something. Also it's not loaded for 5 minutes, it could easily happen that the system will reboot in the next minute...
So, all in all it's pretty untested. Let me know if it should work for you (or not).

Howto use it:

o copy the cifs.ko to your device
o load it using this command (as root):
insmod cifs.ko (this i tested and it worked)
o mount some remote cifs/smb share (as root):
mkdir /home/user/Mydocs/share
mount -t cifs //server/share /home/user/Mydocs/share -o username=<username>, password=<password>
(this has not been tested with pr1.1 - however it worked fine with pr1.0)

Hope that helps.

Err. I have some problem uploading the file and need to catch a train. Will try later again.

Edit: problem isthat the module is too big to be attached here. cifs.ko is 2.8mb, as .tgz it's still 1mb. I'm not allowed to attach that big archives, so I'll just put it into garage.maemo.org when i have some more time. I'd then like to do it as proper package, so it won't happen immediatly.

ok, I now had the module loaded since i got it built and tested by streaming music through the cifs mount for some days. No reboots and no other problems became visible. I'll put it on garage tonight, and will try to build a package out of it if nobody else has done that yet. Searchin on maemo itself currently seems not to work so I have no clue of that has already been done.

Just saw that there is already a thread providing modules, no packages that I've seen though:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38536


That thread provides an own mount.cifs, when I tested this I was able to mount smb/cifs shares with the n900 provided mount command, so I don;t think that mandatory to use.
Also I'm not sure if the modules there are for the pr1.1 kernel release.
So I put the cifs.ko I'm using here for now:

www.lst.de/~lego/cifs.ko.bz2

it's build against the pr1.1 firmware and was tested for a week now without any problems emerging for me.

To use the module basically follow the guide in the thread linked above, the quick steps are:

modprobe cifs.ko
mount -t cifs //server/share /localdir -o username=cifsuser,password=XXXXX

Anyway, this is just a work around, to have that properly setup I think I'll try to build a package from it as soon as I'll find time. Have fun

Wow, way more information then when I asked the question: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37605

Shows the value of asking the same thing multiple times on the forum ;-)