[maemo-developers] Samba support dropped (was Re: N810 WE)

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

Well,

there are different ways of copying files between the tablet and a "PC".
We can skip SMB in this case as the USB transfer would be easier and faster.
Although this would be PC driven while I would like to transfer files
while using the tablet on the sofa.

What SMB would be useful for is sharing data with a network drive.
They usually share the disk via SMB, NFS or AFP and, as far I know,
Maemo, starting from Fremantle, does not deploy any of those clients.
And very few of them actually us UPNP/AV, as they are intended only
for sharing files, not multimedia.

Hopefully plugging in a SMB or NFS client wouldn't be that much of an hassle.

Anidel

2009/1/19 Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com>:
> The majority of Windows users probably don't know what rsync, scp and unison
> (and the underlying ssh for that matter) mean.
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jerry Van Baren <gvb.maemo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Quim Gil wrote:
>> >
>> > ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> >> Wait, what's this about Samba being dropped?
>> >
>> > http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle#Samba
>> >
>> > See also the comments below
>> > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2905#c8
>>
>> I have not been following this conversation closely, but if you are
>> using samba just to transfer files, consider using rsync/scp/unison.  I
>> use rsync (over ssh) and scp to transfer files to and from my n800 (I
>> actually back up my n800 nightly via rsnapshot).  I am Windows Free[tm]
>> at home, but there are Windows programs that provide ssh (putty) and
>> rsync.
>>
>> Putty:
>>   http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
>>
>> Rsync is available via cygwin (ugh, but gets the job done)
>>   http://www.cygwin.com/
>> Howto:
>>   http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php
>>
>> Unison may be just the capability you are looking for (full smart
>> synchronizing, not just file transfer):
>>   http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
>>   http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/03/28/replacing-rsync-with-unison/
>>
>> gvb
>>
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anidel