Hi, > On Jan 31, 2023, at 6:08 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > [..] > That is a great idea and I will look into it -- thank you!
Your welcome. > [..] > Hmmm. Interesting point. I do work on a Mac at home, although I do DOS > stuff on Linux because it's so much more flexible. But I wonder if I > could run EtherDFS on my TrueNAS server, and so DOS VMs could talk to > that? Hmmm. Maybe. It’s been a long while since I’ve played with (FreeNAS) TrueNAS. If I’m remembering correctly, I thought it was running on FreeBSD and not Linux. So, that “could” be an issue. Also, the main reason I use a disk image for the EtherDFS share on my linux server is the underlying Filesystem that the EtherDFS server wants. I honestly cannot remember if it just complains it is not FAT or if it refuses to share non-FAT. It has been a while since I set it up. But, having the Linux server mount the FAT disk image to a directory, then sharing it simultaneously over SAMBA and EtherDFS at the same time never seemed to cause any issues. I know TrueNAS is pretty flexible. But, I just don’t know if you can implement that easily on a TrueNAS appliance. Alternatively, you could always setup a VirtualBox VM running a minimal linux server that contains both SAMBA and EtherDFS shares. Then, just fire up that virtual machine when you want to be moving stuff back and forth. Although not as convenient as running it full time on a dedicated Linux server, it would be a lot easier than repeatedly (un)mounting the image on the host. Plus, if you don’t have to worry about corrupting the disk image if (when) you forget to unmount it. > [..] > This is why I came up with the VM's-HDD-on-USB trick. So long as > you're careful not to mount the VMs' drive while the VM is running, it > works a treat. If you do mount it, it will corrupt the filesystem, so > it's not ideal, though. Yup. I’ve been down that road myself. It always seems to be a matter of “when” (not “if”) you will forget to unmount the disk first. Then it is time to reformat the image and recreate it’s contents. At one point, I would take snapshot backups of such images to save time for when the next “oops” occurred. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
