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[01micko]

This app was originally written by kirk for Fatdog64 but works just as well in Slacko and Precise. It is a simple rox app where you just click it and it scans for shares, then it makes a drive icon for each share which you simply click and it shows the network share. If a password is needed a box pops up requiring the username and password.

The reason for this app is that Pnethood, while it has served us well for many years is often failing to discover network shares in the latest Puppies even though the shares exist. This is because it's major dependency nbtscan is getting old and largely unmaintained.

This is designed for home use. For a more heavy-duty solution use YASSM by rcrsn51. The next Slacko will be shipping with both in place of Pnethood.

This is tested working with XP, Windows 7, Mac and Puppy-samba shares. It is tested with the latest Slacko-beta, Precise Puppy and latest Wary/Racy Beta.

Once you install the pet there is a directory made in /root/network with the Network icon inside. Navigate to that and just click the Network icon to begin. There is no menu entry.

If you forget to unmount shares at shutdown then there is a service script to take care of that.

Warning: No warranty. There is the possibility that if you do something silly like deleting a mounted share then there will be data loss on the share. If you have problems just reboot.

Dependencies:

rox-filer
mpscan (should be already there in most pups)
mount.cifs (should be already there in most pups)
smbclient (should be already there in most pups)
base64 (only in latest pups - includes slacko-533, wary/racy-5.3,precise-5.4)

This will likely fail in Lupu, just test if base64 is there with

[peebee]

Hi Mick

I'm afraid that this new app doesn't seem to work very well for me

I'm running samba on my desktop pc under slacko 5.3.3 - my system definitely falls into "home use" as I just use it to gain access to my files on my desktop from my laptop.

pnethood connects reliably and quickly under most puppies (I have reported speed problems recently with precise but these were fixed)

I loaded the new "final version" 5 of the app onto a pristine frugal install of slacko 5.3.6.5.

On my first attempt to connect nothing happened - the scanning message appeared and then after about 1 min disappeared again with no shares discovered.

On my 2nd attempt I did get a prompt box to enter a user name and password but this took a very long time to appear. A share was established and accessible.

For my setup this would be a retrograde replacement for pnethood as it currently stands.....

Thanks
Peter

[rcrsn51]

@peebee: Can you do some testing? Using your network prefix, run this command. Note the spaces around the "-".

[peebee]

[rcrsn51]

And in neither case did it find the target server. I'm curious - what other devices are connected to this network?

What happens if you probe the server directly with

[peebee]

[01micko]

[peebee]

[rcrsn51]

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[01micko]

Attached is kirk's mpscan source and accompanying binary compiled in slacko-5.3.6.5

If you want to recompile just run ./configure && make and strip the bin in the src dir with strip --strip-unneeded mpscan

Back up the old /usr/sbin/mpscan and replace with the new binary.

I can't see any difference.

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BTW, it works (sort of) on the raspberry pi, but network_roxapp doesn't produce the win7 mounts. even though I get the prompt for a user and password. It's some weird error, probably to do with the fact that I had to install nearly all of debian samba, which links to kerberos and all the security stuff. The mac and my puppy share worked fine. I'll save that for another day.
NOTE: raspi users, please don't use on SAP6 because there is a potential data loss bug specific to the SAP6 OS and the network_roxapp.

[peebee]

[01micko]

[jamesbond]

Note: some windows servers only listen on ports 445 instead of 139.

[01micko]

[01micko]

Updated to 0.6

Changed the service script (run at shutdown) to ensure everything is killed before unmounting the shares, thanks to jamesbond

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