rvanderbijl Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I'm wondering if anyone has tried to create a network share on their Power PMAC, accessible from Windows. We have a USB flash key plugged into the Power PMAC that is used to save data that is being generated by our application. Ideally, I would prefer not to have to start winscp or similar to pull data from it, but instead, use a share to access it. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffLowe Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 I'm wondering if anyone has tried to create a network share on their Power PMAC, accessible from Windows. We have a USB flash key plugged into the Power PMAC that is used to save data that is being generated by our application. Ideally, I would prefer not to have to start winscp or similar to pull data from it, but instead, use a share to access it. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to use? Our PC has two ethernet ports. One is dedicated to the PPMAC and we assign a fixed ip to this port at 192.168.0.100 Create a useraccount on the PC , for example ppuser with a password deltatau Right click the file you want to share, select properties, select sharing and advanced sharing. give the shared folder a name. we use share. add xome temporary file to the share for verification purposes. Use a terminal program like PUTTY and connect to the power pmac at 192.168.0.200, or other IP if you have changed it. Logon as root, password deltatau. enter the following: mount -o remount,rw / mkdir -p /mnt/win use the nano editor to edit /etc/fstab you will see something like this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /opt vfat ro 0 0 /dev/sda2 / ext2 ro 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs Add the following to the end of fstab //192.168.0.100/share /mnt/win cifs username=ppuser,password=deltatay 0 1 exit nano with and enter the following: cd /.readonly/etc-tmpfs-mirror cp -a * ../etc mount -o remount,ro / reboot close the terminal Once rebooted restart the terminal, logon and type: ls /mnt/win You should see the file you entered into the share folder on the PC. This process works on the 460ex cpu. during my short time playing with the 465, I found that it was necessary to create a credentials file with the username and password in it with a pathname to that file in fstab. I don't have the details on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvanderbijl Posted July 7, 2017 Author Share Posted July 7, 2017 JeffLowe, I understand how to do it in THAT direction. I.e. the PC is the server and the PPMAC the client. What I'm looking to do is the reverse. As I cannot count on the PC always being up and running for logging purposes. Therefore the PPMAC writes these log files locally to a USB drive, but I would like to be able to get easy access to them and be able to tail them from a PC (yes, I know, I can tail -f in a putty window, but it's not ideal as I'd like to combine it with other logs being generated on other parts of our equipment). I realize I can install a Samba server on the PPMAC, but before I do that, would like to know if anyone has done that and if there are any gotchas.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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