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Status of NetDrive?
Dariusz Piatkowski:
What is the current status of NetDrive?
I see BMT Mirco still selling it => http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/netdrive.html, but the actual developer site http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/ only shows up in Arabic when I attempt to go there and Google Translate appears to indicate this is some sort of skin care advertisement... :o
So....is this effectively almost abandon-ware now? Or is this still a real product? Is anyone supporting it?
I'm curious because I installed the latest version (3.1.4) to try it out, basically linking to one of my WinXP machines...it does that great. Now that my media server is here (ZyXEL NSA325) I would like to fully test it out and see to what extent I can move my multiple HPFS partitions over to that storage media. It seems like NetDrive would allow this functionality fairly easily.
NSA325 box has other interface functionality, I could deploy NFS, FTP or even TFTP, however, I would much prefer to deploy something that is more streamlined and easier to configure.
Eugene Gorbunoff:
list of plugins: http://ecomstation.ru/netdrive
new homepage of netdrive:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/netdrive/
ivan:
Hi Dariusz,
Does your media server have an FTP server? All the NAS boxes we have do and we use that copy full partitions into storage. In fact that is how I changed most of the HPSF partitions we started with to JFS ones - copy to NAS, reformat as JFS and copy back, the only thing I had to do was copy the FTP client to a different partition before formatting the partition it was on.
Dariusz Piatkowski:
--- Quote from: ivan on February 08, 2015, 01:25:26 am ---Hi Dariusz,
Does your media server have an FTP server? ...
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Hi Ivan,
Yes, the media server does support FTP (along with a pile of other interfaces). What you suggest would work perfectly well for the transition part of the process. However, I really wish to move the multi-media stuff over to the NAS permanently...this is because we simply have far too many photos, videos, etc, that we wish to access from other devices, be in the family room TV, tablets or cell phones.
In combination with this, I would like to continue to use apps like PMView to manage my DSLR camera image imports and manipulation before these finally end up on the NAS. Therefore, I'm looking for something that will allow me to treat the NAS storage as a typical "system drive". Given what I have seen NetDrive appears to fit that. I believe NFS would allow me to do this as well though.
ivan:
Hi Dariusz,
Here we have SAMBA setup to do things like mapping a NAS partition to a drive letter. The only slight disadvantage with that is, if the NAS is in sleep mode the first access is slow but this depends on how fast the NAS wakes up. Other than that there are no problems we can see. We store a lot of the photos we take of clients engineering equipment on NAS boxes and can call them up and manipulate them on there.
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