Samba on the Empeg Car Player

I am trying to setup Samba on the Empeg car player.
Anyone done this before?

If so please let us know how you configured it ...

.: Mirko


.: i love my empeg!!

I am trying to setup Samba on the Empeg car player. Anyone done this before?

I'm not a technical type (Samba? Isn't that some kind of latin dance?) but I remember seeing references to Samba in other posts on this bbs. A search for 'Samba' brings up more than a dozen hits. Did you try that?

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

Samba is a cifs/smb emulation for Unix/Linux systems. cifs/smb are the network file sharing protocols of Microsoft. This means that the empeg can be accessed with any Windows operating system.

Currently I installed the linux-arm port of samba on my empeg. After playing around a few hours my deamons are now running. But it seems, that there is a problem with the kernel.
The samba server can't do any locks and semaphores.

does some one have experience with samba?

thank's
.: Mirko


.: i love my empeg!!

Sounds like you need to rebuild your kernel to include semaphores and lock mechanisms, which I doubt would be set on in the default config file for a small kernel such as this running in limited space.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

Currently I installed the linux-arm port of samba on my empeg. After playing around a few hours my deamons are now running. But it seems, that there is a problem with the kernel.
The samba server can't do any locks and semaphores.

does some one have experience with samba?

I've had Samba-2.0.7 running some months already.

The kernel does not have semaphores but I would suggest you to cross-compile Samba without semaphores instead of adding semaphore support to kernel. For interprocess communication, LinuxThreads works much better and faster than any of that System V IPC stuff.

If I recall right, you still need to do some modifications to the Samba files to get it correctly compiled. I have the modified source tree (over 20 megs uncompressed) if you're interested.

When you have a working binary of Samba, you'll still need to do quite some modifications to directory structures and such to make it actually work. Some directories in /etc must exist and they need to be always RW mounted in order to get Samba running.

Kim

Ohh i had exactly that problem with the semaphores. If you could give me an ftp or http address, where I can get the modified source code it would be so great. Then I don't have to do all that my own.
I mad already some modifications, but I'm planning to make a install script ...
It isn't ideal to mount the disk's rw. But I need to figure out what kind of writes samba makes ... Else I could mount a ramdrive for this writes ...

Thank's for your Input ...
.: Mirko

.: i love my empeg!!

I'll try turning it on for the mk2 kernel and see how much space it adds: if it's not too big we'll turn it on as default. There's already IrDA in the mk2 kernel as standard, and that's fairly large.

Hugo

If you could give me an ftp or http address, where I can get the modified source code it would be so great.

You can get the whole 7MB modified tarball from here.

It isn't ideal to mount the disk's rw. But I need to figure out what kind of writes samba makes ... Else I could mount a ramdrive for this writes ...

I would suggest to take the /dev/hda2 parition in use and to move the /etc /var and such folders there and making that partition always RW mounted. Makes a lot of other programs work better as well, as they can then write misc information somewhere.

Kim

Is /dev/hda2 actually used with the default empeg install? It shows up as being partitioned in fdisk, but there is no fs that I can tell on it. (At least, it won't mount).

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Is /dev/hda2 actually used with the default empeg install? It shows up as being partitioned in fdisk, but there is no fs that I can tell on it. (At least, it won't mount).

No, it's not used by default. You need to format it first, then create a directory and mount it.

Kim

Hi Kim

Great work. I just compiled the source code moved it to the empeg and with some little modifications of file locations the Samba Server is now up and running.

.: Mirko

.: i love my empeg!!

Wow thats cool !
Blacksum, could you summarize, whats neccesary ??

Thanks so much:

Nils