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Hi ! What is the most natural, easily setup, way to share browse and move files between stations running antiX on a LAN ? I am aware of the Connectshares application bundled which our distro, but altho support for NFS is briefly mentionned, the setup – described in the guide – is oriented only towards accessing MS.Windows (aka SMB, Samba) shares from Linux *clients*.

My question is different : given two or more stations each running Linux, on a home network without security obstructions, what is the best option to provide seamless access to one another’s file system, on a peer to peer basis if possible (rather than FTP, and similar)? With Connectshares would I be forced to run one or more Samba *servers* (in addition to clients, and is the “SMB server” installed as part of Connectshares or a szparately installed application ? What is “NFS” and can I use that to advantage in the situation described ?

How can I access remote shares in my local network?
Using a file manager is not the only way to mount network shares.

Connectshares is an easy to use share access automation tool, designed with simplicity in mind. It can be quickly set up and used by a standard user and without the need of deep technical knowledge.

Does it work in my preferred environment?
Many popular file managers work only in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) within the Linux desktop.

Likewise, Connectshares works in a GUI, but also works at a Command Line Interface (CLI) within a terminal, and additionally in a console environment i.e. when no X GUI is running. This enables you to employ Connectshares as a single universal method to mount remote shares no matter which type of environment you prefer to work in.

Will it overload my system?
When using a GUI file manager to access remote shares, that file manager often must be loaded, which in turn uses CPU and RAM.

After mounting the remote shares in your local system, Connectshares quits which minimizes CPU and RAM usage to zero in all practical terms. Because it does not leave apps, services, or daemons, running the CPU and RAM available to your system is maximized for other apps and tasks.

What do I need to install?
Some popular file managers use plug-ins or virtual file systems to access remote shares. Sometimes you might need to install the additional software manually to obtain the wanted functionality.

Connectshares makes use of standard components that are present in almost every Linux distro. antiX ships with Connectshares installed together with everything that it needs, so installation of additional software is not required.

Will it discover which shares are available in my local network (LAN)?
Some popular file managers are able to scan the LAN, some rely on extra software being installed to find shares.

Connectshares includes everything it needs discover various types of shares. These include shares on Windows boxes, Samba shares on Linux boxes, and NFS shares on Linux boxes.

How difficult is it to set up?
Popular file managers need to be told which shares to mount.

Likewise Connectshares needs to be told which shares to mount. This needs to done once only. It is set-and-forget. Optionally, the way in which the shares are mounted can be finely controlled, but this is not usually needed.

How do I use it to work with shared files?
Normally remote shared files made available via a popular file manager are effectively tied to that file manager.

Connectshares will work with any file manager irrespective of whether it ships in antiX or is one you choose to install. When any file manager is used together with Connectshares, you can work with network shares in a simple and familiar way.

A file manager is not actually needed. Connectshares makes network shares available to any GUI application or psuedo GUI application, whether the app is network-enabled or not.

A GUI or psuedo GUI application is not actually needed. With Connectshares you can use and manage remote shared files via the command line.

Basically, Connectshares mounts the remote shares into the local system, then quits to get out of the way, leaving the shares available to be used by any app.

Is it convenient to use
Convenience is one of those things that varies from person to person. Here are some of the things Connectshares can do that are not mentioned above.

• Works with network shares that require, and those that do not require, a username+password,
• Option to automatically or manually supply the username+password to those remote shares that require credentials,
• Unchallenged log-in to network shares that do not require a username+password,
• Option to automatically access remote shares while logging-in to your local system,
• Capability to automatically access network shares on multiple remote systems at log-in, or manually on demand at any time,
• Option to automatically unmount shares at log-out, or manually on demand at any time

Is there any further help on it?
There is a step-by-step written user guide in the FAQ and a video by dolphin_oracle

The written user guide is available in the antiX FAQ:
Online
http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/connectshares.html
Locally installed
See the Help section of the antiX main menu

The video is available on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp95SzXLp7Q

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Kernel and Repos

noordinaryspider wrote:

Here is the inixi report:

System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.14.2-gnu.nonpae i686 bits: 32

You are using a kernel which I have no experience of, so the following is based on the premise that it does not adversely affect the issue.

The use of the stable (stretch) repos with antiX-17-Full is good as it reduces the number of potential sources of the problem. If you have not already done it, follow the standard update and upgrade routines to ensure the system is fully up to date.

Connectshares Configuration

noordinaryspider wrote:

…in step 2, I get an error message saying that “Either the file already exists or the name is invalid”. I get the same error message when I try to create a new configuration file.

This is highly likely to be due to the way in which you are using the inbuilt selection and editing tools.

The previously linked video provides relevant info. Start times approximately:

• 3:00 connectshares configuration
• 4:00 how to select and edit connectshares.conf
• 5:15 alternative method of configuring connectshares.conf

There are errors in the details you have entered into the connectshares.conf file.
It will be beneficial for you to read the FAQ Connectshares guide section entitled, Setting Up Connectshares. This section includes an example configuration. Pay particular attention to the entries, WORKGROUP and SHARESUSER, both of which require a value and are currently invalid in your configuration.

Findshares Report
It looks like you are trying to connect to a remote Samba server (192.168.10.169) and mount a homes share (usually password protected) in the local system (192.168.10.179). The Findshares report does not contain a reference to any homes shares which suggests homes shares are not set up on the remote Samba server or the remote system might be blocking them in some way.

Is the remote Samba server correctly configured to serve homes shares? This would also explain the difficulties you reported when using Devuan to connect to the Samba server. Note, Samba homes shares usually require name and password to be supplied during the connection process. There are plenty of reference guides on this available on the net.

The Findshares report shows you are also running a Samba server on the local system (192.168.10.179). This is not needed to access shares on a remote Samba server. If you do not intend to serve shares from 192.168.10.179 to other client systems on the LAN, it is probably a good idea to switch off (and eventually uninstall) this Samba server. Doing so will make more resources available to 192.168.10.179 and reduce the complications you face while troubleshooting.

An unusual entry in Findshares is reported as 192.168.10.255. Is this the IP address of one of your systems? xxx.xxx.xxx.255 is normally reserved for the broadcast address of the LAN and as such is not used as an actual host address. This might be adding to the problems you are experiencing.

[Member noordinaryspider]

Thank you.

I can see the shares just fine in step 1, but in step 2, I get an error message saying that “Either the file already exists or the name is invalid”. I get the same error message when I try to create a new configuration file.

Here is my `/.config/connectshares/connectshares.conf file:

# ————-
# Remote System
# ————-

# The name or IP address of the remote system serving the share(s)
# Examples
# REMOTE=shareserver
# REMOTE=192.168.1.50
REMOTE=192.168.10.169

# ————
# Samba Shares
# ————

# Enable/disable the mounting of Samba shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in “Samba Shares” section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
# SAMBA=
# SAMBA=y
SAMBA=y

# The name of the domain in which the remote system serves Samba shares(s)
# Examples
# WORKGROUP=company
# WORKGROUP=workgroup
WORKGROUP=

# Samba shares on the remote system that require a user name and password
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
# SHARESUSER=
# SHARESUSER=homes,
# SHARESUSER=accounts,homes,video clips,
noordinaryspider=homes,
#
# Enable/disable automatically supplying user name and password to remote Samba server
# When disabled a request to manually input credentials is displayed
# Leave empty to disable automatic credentials mode, add y to enable automatic credentials mode
# Examples
# CREDAUTO=
# CREDAUTO=y
CREDAUTO=
#
# The name and password to be supplied when automatic credentials mode is enabled
# When automatic credentials mode is disabled, these entries are ignored and may be left empty
# Examples
# CREDNAME=popeye
# CREDPASS=spinach

# Samba shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must allow access to guests
# Leave empty to disable mounting shares of this type
# Each listed share must include only the share name terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
# SHARESGUEST=
# SHARESGUEST=anyone,
# SHARESGUEST=anyone,guest only,
SHARESGUEST=

# Options to be applied when mounting Samba shares (both with and without a password)
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
# SAMBAOPT=
# SAMBAOPT=nounix,cache=none,
SAMBAOPT=

# ——————–
# NFS Shares (Exports)
# ——————–

# Enable/disable the mounting of NFS shares from the remote system
# When disabled, all other entries in “NFS Shares (Exports)” section are ignored
# Leave empty to disable mounting, add y to enable mounting
# Examples
# NFS=
# NFS=y
NFS=

# NFS shares on the remote system that do not require a user name and password
# The shares must be accessible by a local system that has a vaild IP address or DNS name
# Each listed share must include the full path of the exported directory on the remote system
# Each listed share must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple shares must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
# SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/backups,
# SHARESIPDNS=/home/nfs/audio clips,/home/nfs/backups,/home/nfs/images,
SHARESIPDNS=

# Options to be applied when mounting NFS shares
# Leave empty to disable the use of options
# An option must be terminated by a comma
# Multiple options must be specified as a comma separated list
# A space immediately before or immediately after a comma is not allowed
# Examples
# NFSOPT=
# NFSOPT=rw,hard,intr,timeo=30,retry=0,
NFSOPT=

Here is the inixi report:

System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.14.2-gnu.nonpae i686 bits: 32
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5
Distro: antiX-17_386-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine: Device: laptop System: IBM product: 18714PU v: ThinkPad T43 serial: N/A
Mobo: IBM model: 18714PU serial: N/A
BIOS: IBM v: 70ET64WW (1.24 ) date: 02/13/2006
Battery BAT0: charge: 60.4 Wh 99.9% condition: 60.4/71.3 Wh (85%)
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium M (-UP-) cache: 2048 KB speed: 1866 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1024×768@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC’97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.14.2-gnu.nonpae
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCIE
driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC driver: ath5k
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 12.1GB (38.9% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: HITACHI_DK23AA size: 12.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 10G used: 3.5G (37%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0C mobo: 42.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3949
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/ freesh main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main nosystemd
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Info: Processes: 143 Uptime: 8:26 Memory: 1075.5/1972.5MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40

and findshares:

findshares
Local Host Name = antix1
Local IP Address = 192.168.10.179 on wlan0

Scanning from 192.168.10.179 on wlan0
Samba/Windows Shares
——————————————————————————–
WORKGROUP
DEVUAN 192.168.10.169 Samba 4.2.14-Debian
print$ Printer Drivers
noordinaryspider
IPC$ IPC Service (Samba 4.2.14-Debian)
Benjamin_Franklin HP Deskjet 1050 J410 series
MFCJ480DW MFCJ480DW
HP_DeskJet_940C HP DeskJet 940C

WORKGROUP
ANTIX1 192.168.10.179 Samba 4.5.12-Debian
print$ Printer Drivers
IPC$ IPC Service (Samba 4.5.12-Debian)

NFS Exports
——————————————————————————–
Server IP Address = 192.168.10.169
Exported Location Allowable Clients
/home
192.168.10.121
192.168.10.205
192.168.10.115
192.168.10.111
192.168.10.255
192.168.10.114
192.168.10.179

Gnu/Linux user #387554 (since 2005-4-17) with old thinkpads and a strong preference for free-as-in-freedom over proprietary software.

Having loved and dabbled in antiX for a long time, I find that I still have so very much to learn and that learning is so very enjoyable.

[Member greyowl]

Dave wrote:

Hmm strange perhaps you have found a bug. What is the content of ~/.desktop-session/startup? And could you also post an ls of ~/.config/autostart?

Here is the content of .desktop-session/startup:

#!/bin/bash
# Puts a volume icon on the taskbar
volumeicon & 

# Enable/Disable automounting
automount-antix &

# Puts a flag on the taskbar to show which keyboard is being used if more than 1 keyboard layout is detected
fbxkb-start &

# Uncomment for easy search from the taskbar
#search-bar-icon &

# Uncomment the following line to mount Samba and/or NFS shares
#connectshares &

# Uncomment to show the configuration gui of a running ssh-conduit-x11vnc server
#ssh-conduit-x11vnc.sh gui &

# Uncomment to use clipboard manager
#clipit &

# Uncomment to show wicd networking monitor
#wicd-client -t &
grep -q "START_DAEMON=no" /etc/default/wicd || wicd-client -t &

# Create a bootchart image if bootchart was run
test -e /etc/live/config/bootchart \
    && (sleep 6 && test -e /var/log/bootchart.tgz \
        && ! test -e ~/bootchart.png \
        && pybootchartgui)&

# Used on live system only
(sleep 5 && toram-eject) & 

Here is the contents of desktop session config:

#This is the desktop-session config file.
#This is structured in a bash script format, so all options must be option="desired-option

#Session service delay.
#This is to set how long to delay startup to give enough time for the wm to completely load.
#before starting to load other applications. This wait period will be started after the 
#window manager has been found running.
#TIME is expressed in seconds
#Options: 0-9...
STARTUP_DELAY="2"

#Session window manager check
#This is to set the amount of times desktop-session checks for a running window manager
#before giving up and denying the session to load.
#Options: 0-9...
TIMES_TO_CHECK="20"

#Session give up override
#This is to set the override if the window manager is never found to be running by 
#desktop-session. This will force the session to load if set to true.
#Options: true | false
FORCE_LOAD="false"

#Session Protect.
#This is how to protect the user from automatic updating of any file within desktop-session.
#Examples are the menu, any file compare within file_compare, etc
#Options for this are: 
#SESSION_PROTECT="true #Strictly protect the user, leave the user to deal with any of the updating
#SESSION_PROTECT="ask #Notify me at startup of any changes and allow me to choose what to update
#SESSION_PROTECT="false #Just update me, I dont want to worry about falling behind.
SESSION_PROTECT="false"

#Notification Dialog
#This is where to enable / disable the session loading dialog
#Options: true | false
NOTIFICATION_DIALOG="false"

#Notification text or program
#This is where the text is set for the notification that the session is loading.
#This can be a specified text string or a program that will return a text string
#Examples:
#NOTIFICATION_TEXT="Session is Loading, Please Wait....."
#NOTIFICATION_TEXT="/usr/games/fortune"
NOTIFICATION_TEXT="Session is Loading, Please Wait....."

#Startup Sound
#Play Sound when loading the desktop (uses terminal command play)
#Options: true | false
STARTUP_SOUND="true"

#Startup Sound File
#Location of the file for the startup sound 
STARTUP_SOUND_FILE="$HOME/.desktop-session/startup.ogg"

#Startup Dialog
#This is where to enable / disable the session startup dialog
#Options: true | false
STARTUP_DIALOG="false"

#Startup Dialog Command
#This is where to set the startup dialog command
#Examples: 
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD="leafpad ~/.startup-text
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD="yad --image='info' --text='this is my startup dialog'"
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD="/usr/local/lib/desktop-session/startup-dialog.py"

#Session load conky
#This will load a window manager specific conky from ~/.conky
#There must be a corresponding conkyrc in ~/.conky in the form of windowmanager-conkyrc
#Else we will load conky without the -c parameter
#Options: true | false
LOAD_CONKY="false"

#Session load xdg autostart
#This will load any application that is setup to autostart via xdg autostart directories /
#.desktop files.
#Options: true | false
LOAD_XDG_AUTOSTART="true"

#Session load startup
#This will load any application that is setup to autostart via /etc/desktop-session/startup
#Options: true | false
LOAD_STARTUP_FILE="true"

#Session screen blank
#This is to set the amount of time that the screen stays visible.
#Desktop-session sets the dpms settings according to the screen blank value set here.
#TIME expressed in seconds
#Options: 0-9...
SCREEN_BLANK_TIME="3600"

I do not know where to find config autostart. Please direct me.
Is there anything else that you need?
Thanks

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

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Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

Hello, I’m new to “Heather Heyer” and probably haven’t even virtualized antiX in a good five years. I’m absolutely loving what you’ve been up to except for the troubles I’m having with Samba. I didn’t have much luck with Connectshares, so I tried just using Spacefm, which would have been ideal, with the address smb://username@ip-address-of-server/share instead of my accustomed smb://ip-address-of-share and/or smb://network/workgroup/hostname-of-server from pcmanfm.

After much grumping and grumbling and shaking my fist at the sky, I finally opened a terminal and realized that it was no big deal to use my words like a big boy/girl and and sudo apt-get install pcmanfm gvs-backends gvs-fuse but I still can’t access my home network. I had the same problem with Devuan on the same Thinkpad T43 I am using for the install, but was under the impression that it was not a hardware issue, just my own inexperience and sloppiness.

I rarely actually need to connect to a windows machine, so samba may just be a bad habit. My current antiX machine(s) are old and I have a brand new hard drive install on a 12 gig IDE drive. I want to access configuration files that are stored on the server and, when all the customizing, learning, and “moving in” is done, edit and access files for word processing, .pdf and .epub books, streaming media, etc.

tia, and this is a question, not an emergency. 🙂

Gnu/Linux user #387554 (since 2005-4-17) with old thinkpads and a strong preference for free-as-in-freedom over proprietary software.

Having loved and dabbled in antiX for a long time, I find that I still have so very much to learn and that learning is so very enjoyable.

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I’m glad you got it to work! Thanks for all of the information! I too use a separate /data partition (lowercase in my case). I started doing that on Solaris back in the early to mid 1990s. I think it would be really cool if distros provided better support for a separate /data partition. My ext4 /data partition is mounted with the options “relatime,user,exec,dev”. It mounts automatically at boot-time. IMO having a separate /data partition makes a lot more sense than a separate /home partition.

AFAIK, the permission problems stem from using an ntfs file system. I don’t think normal Linux/Unix file permissions work there so the choice is between making everything executable or making nothing executable. Using either one for the default will cause nasty problems from some people. If you want your data partition to work better OOTB, you may want to consider moving to a real file system such as ext4 and use samba to transfer data to and from Windows. I think there are people here who can help you set that up. Of course you need two machines for that to work while with ntfs you can do it all on one machine.

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– Still need to get Samba working and updating the menus and standard pogramms settings -if someone remembers how that was done in 13.2 – I am happy about tips

Being a poke and hope type of team member. I can’t remember 1/2 of any steps I take with out writing down what I am doing at that exact moment. Because I usually just experiment as a learning process in my case. Having ran AntiX on a IBM 390E in the past. I can’t even tell you how I managed doing that.

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Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

Hello together,

my “problems” do not concern the “new” releases plus I consider myself still as “new user”, thus posting here:
(1) Thinkpad 600x: Did not play sound on 16.2 but does out of the box under 13.2 – So I did 10+ install runs playing araound and destroying the installation and starting over over the last week:
– Grub does not install on partition (was known in the Tapatalk forum) – so finally I installed to MBR and exchanged the MBR with WinXP boot-ini-sectos until everything now works nicely (booting DOS, WinXP, OS2 and antiX 13.2 and WinPE-Rescue).
– Release-Time presets for Repositories (Wheezy mostly) do not work any more. I did some guessing etc. and found something that works now (must be VERY carefully with deinstallation-requests by some newer packages) – nevertheless: can someoone maybe post a list of “correct” current Repo URLs for Wheeze, Lenny etc. and the corresponding antiX-special packages?
– Still need to get Samba working and updating the menus and standard pogramms settings -if someone remembers how that was done in 13.2 – I am happy about tips…

(2) Thinkpad 600 (no x, Pentium 2!, but CF-card-“SSD” and TP-Link Atheros-9K-11n-USB-WLAN – so “modern stuff”):
– 16.2 is installed and runsn with two big probs:
– WLAN: the stick is seen and obviously tries to work, but the firmware crashes every second and writes a long message into kernel log, syslog and messages log – filling up the harddrive in about an hour. I tried a few firmware packages, but they make no difference (atheros-frimware 0.43, 0.38 or so and the 1610xx-version) – I beleive that either an older kernel (as needed for sound anyway) may help or a bug report to the driver guys (google does not find much so far) – likely troublemaker is timeout due to USB 1.1 (but no prob under W2K, so it must be possible to work that slow)… –> can anyone with some more understanding of the connections between the components and their teams advise, where I could look for a solution for that (i.e. Atheros ar9271 on USB 1.1)?
– sound: The cs423x-driver is not included in many new kernels. There are some which do have the driver, but it snot easy to install a new kernel as long as the machine has no network (see above)…

(3) Is it planned to salvage at least the contents (has a huge lot of know-how, known problems and even solutions and links) of the old Tapatalk forum?

So far for now. Enjoying web radio via the 600x right now…

Torsten