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| One option is a direct link via a serial or parallel cable from the Amiga to another PC, or even to use a telnet BBS service to upload and download files - these options can be slow and fiddly to implement. | | One option is a direct link via a serial or parallel cable from the Amiga to another PC, or even to use a telnet BBS service to upload and download files - these options can be slow and fiddly to implement. |
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− | With SAMBA however, transferring files to and from your Amiga is as easy as opening up a Drawer in Workbench, and dragging them to your Hard Disk Drive or Compact Flash card - and everything can be done directly on the Amiga without having to use winUAE etc! | + | With SAMBA however, transferring files to your Amiga is as easy as opening up a Drawer in Workbench and dragging them to your Hard DIsk Drive or Compact Flash card - and everything can be done directly on the Amiga without having to use UAE etc! |
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| '''Prerequisites''' | | '''Prerequisites''' |
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− | 1. First setup Samba on your NAS, PC or network so that you have a Samba server or host running ready to connect your Amiga to. Make sure your local network IP range 192.168.1.* etc is allowed to connect so your Amiga will see the WORKGROUP and Samba Shares available on the local network. | + | 1. First add a Plipbox to your Amiga and have it setup with MiamiDX or similar TCP/IP stack so you have internet and Network connectivity available on the Amiga - see instructions and information here: '''[[Commodore Amiga Plipbox Ethernet Adapter]]''' |
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− | 2. Add a Plipbox to your Amiga and have it setup with MiamiDX or similar TCP/IP stack so you have internet and Network connectivity available on the Amiga - see instructions and information here: '''[[Commodore Amiga Plipbox Ethernet Adapter]]''' | + | 2. Using your newly setup Plipbox download the following files from here: [http://wiki.simulant.uk/downloadable-files/amiga-68k-samba/ Amiga 68K Samba files] to your Amiga, or transfer them initially by other means you may already have. |
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− | '''(I recommend MiamiDX as it seems to "just work"!! Although on classic Amigas with less RAM you may need something a little leaner)'''
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− | 3. Using your newly setup Plipbox download the following files from here: [http://wiki.simulant.uk/downloadable-files/amiga-68k-samba/ Amiga 68K Samba files] to your Amiga, or transfer them initially by other means you may already have.
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| You now should have these in a folder on your Amiga: | | You now should have these in a folder on your Amiga: |
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− | :::::SMBMounter.lha
| + | samba-2.2.5-base.lha |
− | :::::samba-2.2.5-base.lha
| + | samba-2.2.5-bin-2.3-68k.lha |
− | :::::samba-2.2.5-bin-2.3-68k.lha
| + | smbfs-68k.lha |
− | :::::smbfs-68k.lha
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− | '''Preparing Samba Files and Install'''
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− | Step A - Find the Samba 2.2.5 Archive (Samba-base.lha) and unarchive it to RAM:
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− | Step B - Find the Samba 2.2.5 Binary (Samba-bin-68k.lha) and unarchive it to RAM:
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− | (this file contains all the 68k specific binaries for use in this installation)
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− | Step C - Find the smbfs-68k.lha file and unarchive it to RAM:
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− | Step D - Open up your RAM disk, (double click) the drawer 'Samba-2.2.5' and rename the drawer within from being called 'install' to just be now called 'samba'
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− | Step E - Back in your RAM disk, there should be another drawer just called 'install', you can open this and drag the contents into the new 'samba' drawer within 'Samba-2.2.5'
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− | Step F - Now also in RAM, open the drawer called 'smbfs-1.74-68k' and drag the 'smbfs' file also into your new 'samba' drawer that is within 'Samba-2.2.5'.
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− | You should end up with a 'samba' drawer with contents like this:
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− | [[File:Amiga-samba-drawer-screenshot.jpg]]
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− | Important: You now should create a couple of extra folders within your 'samba' drawer, they may be required when actually using Samba. So if you don't already have them create a 'log' drawer and within the 'log' drawer also make a 'locks' drawer.
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− | '''Setting Up Samba'''
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− | Step G - Now simply copy your 'samba' drawer that you've got ready to your SYS: or Workbench boot volume.
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− | Step H - Back in your RAM: volume you can now unpack and install SMBmounter, which is a nice GUI samba mount application to make using Samba very easy within Workbench.
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− | Step I - Now open your 'User-Startup' file in a text editor (User-Startup should be located in SYS:S/ drawer) then add the following just before ;BEGIN MUI or with your other ASSIGNS:
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− | ::::: ;Samba
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− | ::::: Assign Samba: SYS:Samba
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− | ::::: Path Samba:bin add
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− | ::::: ;end Samba
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− | Step J - Next open up your smb.conf file located in SYS:S/samba/lib/smb.conf and add or update the following entries in [global] (set these to your requirements and uncomment if not active):
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− | :::::[global]
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− | :::::workgroup = WORKGROUP
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− | :::::netbios name = AMIGA
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− | :::::hosts allow = 192.168.1.* 127.0.0.1
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− | :::::security = user
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− | :::::password level = 20
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− | :::::username level = 20
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− | :::::log file = /t/samba/log/samba.%m.log
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− | Step K - Now you should have the basics in place to use SAMBA!!! Just reboot your Amiga, load up MiamiDX (or the TCP/IP stack you're using with your Plipbox that you've already setup to use the internet with) and run SMBmounter to mount your SAMBA shares as volumes in Workbench!! Hooray!!!
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− | '''(Note: If you're unsure how to mount your shares in SMBMounter just test first with the QuickMount option, pressing the '?' button to search for shares on the network)'''
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