Tiger File Sharing?

[doctor_dog]

Pretty sure it's working. No errors or broken files. I just wish there were, you know, like a basic user manual for Macports but I can't even find out what Samba3 looks like or how to use it based on whatever github says, which is just as sparse. The description is along the lines of "it makes your system work with Samba 3". Compelling.

I didn't see a post prior describing what you're trying to do, if I missed it I apologize (I got here via an alert), but I'm going to assume you are trying to connect to a more modern file share on your local network from your mini G4?

If so, you're on the right track having installed samba3, but you have to use it properly. To that end, I totally get the frustration with lacking a "basic user manual"--this stuff can be complicated. The secret here is to look at what binaries macports installed when you built samba3 and take a look at the man entries for the relevant ones (hint: smbclient is one of them). If you have no idea what I'm talking about or how to do it, here's what I suggest to get connected to your modern file share:

• From the Terminal, try the command 'smbclient'. This almost certainly got installed when you built samba3 in MP. This should let you connect to file shares on a more modern machine, but you will be limited to command line usage.
  • https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbclient.1.html for more info.
• But what if you want a GUI version? Have a look at my post and replies earlier in this thread for options, but sadly there really aren't any good ways to do it. You'd have to hack Finder pretty well to bake-in newer protocol support.
• That said, if you want to mess around with a GUI, you can actually upgrade the supported protocols for your G4 as a server. That is, you can access the G4 from a modern mac or Windows machine to push the files instead of pull them, as it were. May or not be helpful depending your use case.

 

[MrCheeto]

I'm going to assume you are trying to connect to a more modern file share on your local network from your mini G4?

You got me. The OP got onto the track of installing samba3 via MacPorts. The last we heard it was proceeding and then...

Indeed I did try to use smbclient. smbclient -U Cheeto //Host.local/Drive
It asks for my password then responds with timeout or connect failure.

There is a command for listing servers available on the network. The only available server it shows is the mini itself, which is exactly what it shows in Finder/Network as well, mini.local.

Pinging works when sent to Host.local.

 

[doctor_dog]

You got me. The OP got onto the track of installing samba3 via MacPorts. The last we heard it was proceeding and then...

Indeed I did try to use smbclient. smbclient -U Cheeto //Host.local/Drive
It asks for my password then responds with timeout or connect failure.

There is a command for listing servers available on the network. The only available server it shows is the mini itself, which is exactly what it shows in Finder/Network as well, mini.local.

Pinging works when sent to Host.local.

Ah, you're even further down the right track than I had presumed. Good deal. That is odd, I wonder if smbclient has a hard time with host name resolution perhaps? Does it work if you use nmblookup? And do you get the same error if you try with the IP address? The only other thing I could think of would be to turn logging on and set it to debug level.

EDIT: I see you noted you did get prompted for your password, so seemingly it is resolving OK. Still, you may want to give the IP a go just in case.

 

[MrCheeto]

Does it work if you use nmblookup? And do you get the same error if you try with the IP address?

nmblookup responds with the correct IP of the Host and ends with Host<00>

Since you mentioned, I tried smbclient //IP/Drive -U Cheeto and got "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE"

Strange indeed. Shows I currently have Samba 3.6.25 installed on the G4.

Wondering if the way I configured my smb.conf has anything to do with this. All it is is global section listing my G4's name and workgroup.

 

[barracuda156]

But what if you want a GUI version? Have a look at my post and replies earlier in this thread for options, but sadly there really aren't any good ways to do it. You'd have to hack Finder pretty well to bake-in newer protocol support.

Looks like there are plenty of GUI choices, perhaps something of those is not broken

Samba GUI Information

Home of Samba, the SMB file server

www.samba.org