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I expect this will probably be too resource-intensive for your liking, but I figure I might as well ask. Any hope of LaunchELF adding SAMBA support so we can just point it to fileshares for file transfers or elf booting? I think that would pretty much obsolete host and FTP entirely for me.
We are not particularly worried about 'resource-intensive' stuff. It's up to each user whether to enable such things or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zylyx
The only thing we are 'obsessive' about is to not add pure 'eye-candy' features, that would bloat the program size without adding any real functionality. A file-sharing system like Samba does not fall into that category.
However, I haven't been able to make Samba work as supplied with myPS2, for which it was written, even though I have myPS2 working error-free otherwise. Until I can make that Samba implementation work with the program it was developed for, I can't really consider it for inclusion in LaunchELF.
If you have any advice or info that might help make it work, please share it.
Best regards: dlanor
Samba and myPS2 was easy!
Remember that you must save the file in UNIX format.
/Edit: i would love UlaunchELF with smb support.
I asked for info, not for boasts... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by riceri
Here it still doesn't work. That entire drive is setup as shared in WinXP Pro, and I have entered my normal login name and password from the XP into the samba.xml file stored in the same folder as MYPS2.ELF.
I have the following in samba.xml:
In the above, 'M' is the share name assigned to the sharing of the entire 'M:' drive in WinXP, a sharing that works well from other parts of my network (mainly my router and a Win2k-server PC on a different subnet, but the subnet shouldn't matter, as the workgroup spans both my subnets). The IP "192.168.65.64" is the address of my main PC (with the shared drive), as accessed on the subnet it shares with the PS2. That IP address is also set up as WINS server in the Samba settings page of myPS2, where I have also set the name of the Workgroup correctly.Code:<shares>
<!-- example entry -->
<share>
<name>RA1 M-Drive (SMB)</name>
<path>smb://my_WinXP_username:my_WinXP_password@192.168.65.64/M/</path>
</share>
</shares>
During initialization myPS2 shows that 1 share is processed, and a correct entry for it exists in the browsers too ('My Files' etc). Unfortunately that entry never works. I see two brief flickers of the hub leds, but that's all. No directory is ever opened, not even an empty dummy.
I have tried that, though it really shouldn't be necessary. After all, the original samba.xml supplied in the release RAR used CR+LF everywhere... But I did try changing them all to LF without CR, and it had no effect at all.Quote:
Remember that you must save the file in UNIX format.
If that can be done with reasonable efforts, then I'm all for it, but first I'd like to see this Samba implementation work in the program it was designed for.Quote:
/Edit: i would love UlaunchELF with smb support.
Best regards: dlanor
Now i see you got past the problem i had :)
I can't help you then.
Neither have I. It won't read in it's own config file but I'm running the program from mass. I really don't want to have to make the +MYPS2 partition if that's what requires to get it working properly. Maybe it's time to compile my own version of myPS2 to do the testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dlanor
The only thing I noticed you didn't mention before was the:
- Create an lmhosts file with appropriate settings for your network and upload it
to mc0:lmhosts
I don't like the idea of keeping files in the root of a memory card.
It never worked right from mass for me either. I think that it assumes MC residence if it can't find the hdd strings in its config, and putting all of it on MC is out of the question, considering both its size and the folder structure. (I still refuse to have subfolders on MC...)Quote:
Originally Posted by E P
It is, but I know how you feel. I felt the same way until I upgraded to my new HDD, getting another 100GB of free space. I wanted to use +MYPS2 space for AVIs as well (with SMS of course), so I ordered myPS2 to make an 8GB partition. I'm not sure if that worked right though, as LaunchELF only shows it to be 4GB in size. (Can we even handle larger APA partitions...?!?, considering that max abs value of a 32bit int is 4G-1...)Quote:
I really don't want to have to make the +MYPS2 partition if that's what requires to get it working properly.
Anyway, for me hard disk partition mounting in myPS2 gets mucked up if it can't mount the first two partitions as expected, meaning that it needs +myPS2 as pfs0:, and bootup partition specified in the config as pfs1:.
That might be a good idea, as the demand for those partitions can probably be changed into an option instead, like it should be. And of course, that weird dependency on unix-style LFs definitely has to go. Not even the original author sticks consistently to that style...!Quote:
Maybe it's time to compile my own version of myPS2 to do the testing.
That's because I somehow missed that info...:(Quote:
The only thing I noticed you didn't mention before was the:
- Create an lmhosts file with appropriate settings for your network and upload it
to mc0:lmhosts
But I don't see why it would be needed when I used numeric IP in the samba.xml file... But OK, I'll try it and report results later.
Edit:
Nope. I added a proper "lmhosts" file (the "hosts" file from my PC, renamed) in the root of mc0:, but that made no difference whatever. All I get when attempting to open the Samba share in myPS2 is a couple of flickers of the hub leds, nothing else. I suppose I could try with a shared folder instead of a shared drive, but that's crazy really, as it means I have to abandon my current sharing policy just to please a PS2 program. I don't share individual folders, but only full drives. My LAN is secure, so I have no reason to fiddle with separate folder share settings. And I have plenty reason to avoid it, as just the one drive that I wanted to share in this experiment contains 35435 folders. Individual folder share settings simply aren't practical for such amounts.
Me neither. That's almost as bad as having deep folder trees on MC. Not quite as bad, since a simple file is at least not hiding any space that could be lost without the users knowledge, but still pretty bad as it can't be handled by the original MC tool (the built-in PS2 browser I mean).Quote:
I don't like the idea of keeping files in the root of a memory card.
Summing up:
For me the Samba lib still doesn't work with myPS2, the program it was designed for, so adding it to LaunchELF now would be pointless. I still invite any info on how to make it work, so please, if any of you have it working specify what you did, and how it differs from what I've done, so I can try the same.
Best regards: dlanor
It's not really space for me but order. I do have four partitions that I could rename and use. All of them are clean at the moment. 8 GB partitions are not valid as has been mentioned at the ps2dev forums. I think someone mentioned it is an issue with the PFS driver lacking the functionality. Currently 4096MB is the largest and 128MB is the smallest working partitions one may have.Quote:
Originally Posted by dlanor
Yeah I saw that it like tries to mount 4 partitions.:crazy: How many can be mounted at a given time? The ps2ftpd driver looks for up to 16 in it's driver loop. Of course, it stops evaluating the expression as soon as it doesn't find one. I would really like to adjust this value in the future to a more sane value.Quote:
Originally Posted by dlanor
I believe the author of myPS2 wanted to auto-mount partitions within the program itself. I still like my method for ps2ftpd although if my newer version is used with myPS2 there are bound to be many issues.
In regards to the lmhost's thing, I agree I wouldn't want to fiddle around with my own network structure either.
Yeah, I see lots of strange implementations. I can tell that the structures used are by someone who hasn't fully understood the current ways of doing things with ps2dev. I'm not trying to knock the program only point out that somethings were done without the knowledge we and most others at ps2dev have. Sometimes it's hard for new developers to understand the limitations of the system or how to handle them.Quote:
Originally Posted by dlanor
I can just see someone trying to delete the file with the PS2 browser because it would list the lmhosts file as corrupt.
Ok i had the exact problems you guys were having but i seem to have resolved the issue now and SMB is working fine, im going to go back and manually change all the things i tried till i find out what broke it and ill let you know.
Thanks, I appreciate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wallacee
I really want to get this working, as it would be a terrific addition to LaunchELF as well, being able to participate in the real file sharing as an equal partner to the PC. And once it's configured properly it should be easier to use too, as no special client program will be needed on the PC side.
That has always been the weakest point of the HOST implementation, especially since those clients eat a lot of CPU time on the PC (even when not doing any transfers).
Best regards: dlanor