If you are like me that has a Linux Based Fileserver and a Dual boot laptop or separate laptops, this may be of interest:
I discovered a little problem using BlitzMAX on Linux 2 Linux via SMB (Windows 2 Linux via SMB working fine). For some reason the file explorer window in blitzmax locks up when browsing SMB shares and trying to load files. Strange thing is, it is only MaxIDE (both fltk and gtk versions) that does this, all other apps seem to have no problems at all.
However, i found the workaround i needed. On the server i setup the /etc/exports file to contain my shared folders (programming, music, media etc) as well as setting them up in /etc/samba/smb.conf so technically i am sharing via both NFS and SMB systems.
Now i can use Blitzmax in both: -Linux2Linux via NFS (which btw seems to work 100x better than smb/cifs in general) -Windows2Linux via SMB
Originally I got put off using NFS as it looked really complicated but its actually really easy. For a how to on mounting NFS shares, simply google it, its actually much easier than setting up samba! I reccommend using the text file method as the Ubuntu 'share folder' gui tool only seems to allow one or the other (could be wrong).
The reason I like to do it like this is to have one place to develop from, wether im on windows or linux on my laptop or sitting at my desktop(server) the files are always the current version. For backup of this 'programming' share, I also use the SYNC & RAR commands to create a grandfather(rars for DVD) <- father(usb Hdd) <- son(HDD2) <- HDD method of backing up, which automatically runs using crontab.
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