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Networking / Re: Sharing WSeB Server drives to Win 10/11 Clients
« on: April 10, 2025, 06:15:18 pm »
Chris,
I am running WSeB on bare metal - an HP Elitedesk 800 mini that consumes about 12 watts at the desktop.
That system is an AOS 5.1 install minus the networking, with the networking from WSeB installed on top of that.
I am running the Samba 3.6.25 server for connections from earlier Macs, Win7, Win10, and connect OS/2 and WinXP via Netbuei to the WSeB. I have not been able to get any version of Samba server greater than 3.6.25 running correctly. I run a domain for WSeB and a different domain for samba. Previously I had WSeB running on top of ECS and used the same domain name for both samba and WSeB, but to do that you have to connect in a special sequence or you cannot connect to both at the same time: either samba first or WSeB first, I don't remember which. With different domain names you can connect to both at the same time without worrying about connecting in the correct sequence.
In order to connect the Win10 machine I had to add the line
max protocol = SMB2
to the samba.conf file on the samba server.
I have not been able to get any of the family's latest Macs to connect to this setup but the older Macs connect fine.
With the WSeB on AOS 5.1 I cannot get the samba configuration to work when adding a user. So I use the WSeB on ECS machine to make a configuration and transfer that the WSeB on AOS machine. You probably wont have that issue if you are running a "pure" WSeB install.
The other issue I have found with samba is it gets very unhappy when transferring a very large set (number of) of files - like for instance backing up the entire C drive by copying the individual files over. It works fine if those same files are zipped into one large file and that large file is copied across the network. This is not an issue with WSeB.
I am running WSeB on bare metal - an HP Elitedesk 800 mini that consumes about 12 watts at the desktop.
That system is an AOS 5.1 install minus the networking, with the networking from WSeB installed on top of that.
I am running the Samba 3.6.25 server for connections from earlier Macs, Win7, Win10, and connect OS/2 and WinXP via Netbuei to the WSeB. I have not been able to get any version of Samba server greater than 3.6.25 running correctly. I run a domain for WSeB and a different domain for samba. Previously I had WSeB running on top of ECS and used the same domain name for both samba and WSeB, but to do that you have to connect in a special sequence or you cannot connect to both at the same time: either samba first or WSeB first, I don't remember which. With different domain names you can connect to both at the same time without worrying about connecting in the correct sequence.
In order to connect the Win10 machine I had to add the line
max protocol = SMB2
to the samba.conf file on the samba server.
I have not been able to get any of the family's latest Macs to connect to this setup but the older Macs connect fine.
With the WSeB on AOS 5.1 I cannot get the samba configuration to work when adding a user. So I use the WSeB on ECS machine to make a configuration and transfer that the WSeB on AOS machine. You probably wont have that issue if you are running a "pure" WSeB install.
The other issue I have found with samba is it gets very unhappy when transferring a very large set (number of) of files - like for instance backing up the entire C drive by copying the individual files over. It works fine if those same files are zipped into one large file and that large file is copied across the network. This is not an issue with WSeB.