Hey I recently turned my Raspberry PI 2 into a NAS (also reachable through the www) via proftpd. It works just fine but i noticed that Windows (where i attached the pi NAS as network drive) still downloads the files i access to the temp folder rather then opening it as it would on a local drive. This is somewhat a problem especially if you want to launch a program stored on the NAS as it would have to download it first but then it still has no access to other parts of the program (DLLs for example) also every movie stored on the NAS has to be downloaded first, in order to be played. Is there a better way then FTP to accomplish a NAS without the need to download it first but still have the ability to access it from the internet? (by that i mean that windows is directly accessing the PI NAS like a local drive.) Thanks for every answer in advance. ps.: sorry for any typos but my english writing isn't the best ;) pps.: I wasn't sure where to put this topic. Hope i am not too Offtopic here - GenUltra758
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--- GeneralUltra758 -. schrieb: > This is somewhat a problem especially if you want to launch a program > stored on the NAS as it would have to download it first but then it > still has no access to other parts of the program (DLLs for example) Weird. Usually DLLs are loaded first, and then the executable, and then the operating system decides, which of the 1000s of DLLs is required for the executable to run.
Hi, google for "samba linux". mfg
it said it couldnt acces file "ftp://servername/folder/filename" also upon opening/starting the program windows was downloading it to a temp folder, which is what i dont want it to do. edit: the thing about the DLLS was a example anyway. it generally failed to load any file required for the exe to run properly
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Hi, google for "nas". google for "linux". google for "windows". google for "file system". mfg
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Hi, google for "unix". google for "nfs". google for "windows7 nfs". google for "why you should not use rasp pi as a nas". mfg
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Fred is just trolling, ignore him. You got the answer already, -> SAMBA.
Actually Samba is only half the truth: You also want a VPN to access your Samba shares over the Internet.
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> Fred is just trolling
u should know: nfs is included in windows 7
no need for stinking cifs/samba.
ok, thanks to everyone for all the answers. i will try it out once i've got time for it. i might post an update if it worked
Marc S. schrieb: > Actually Samba is only half the truth: > You also want a VPN to access your Samba shares over the Internet. i currently have a DynDNS set up on my router. as FTP goes it works just fine
Use OwnCloud! https://owncloud.org/ It's available for Raspberry Pi (even thrue the repositories) and includes all the goodies you ask for. Easy to setup with a widespread community. Clients for all major OS are also available, and you get an nice GUI to control permissions and other tasks. Harry
Harry L. schrieb: > Use OwnCloud! > https://owncloud.org/ > > It's available for Raspberry Pi (even thrue the repositories) and > includes all the goodies you ask for. > > Easy to setup with a widespread community. > > Clients for all major OS are also available, and you get an nice GUI to > control permissions and other tasks. > > Harry but you need to download the files(own cloud does that in the background), but the files occupy additional space. --- GeneralUltra758 -. schrieb: > Marc S. schrieb: >> Actually Samba is only half the truth: >> You also want a VPN to access your Samba shares over the Internet. > > i currently have a DynDNS set up on my router. as FTP goes it works just > fine FTP is designed to do such things. I think you should not create a publicly reachable samba server.