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On 2025-08-30, Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <c12d71545c.john@user.orpheusmail.co.uk>
>           J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a set of instructions for getting a RISC OS machine
>> talking and sharing files with :
>
>> 1. A Windoz 11 machine

Windows, maybe?

>> 2. A Linux based machine.

I wrote this up in the second WROCC Guide To Networking many years ago, 
and am not aware that it has changed much since then.

  https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter

NFS Server on the Linux box, plus an NFS client on the RISC OS side.

> Can't advise on Linux really. although I think you might need Sunfish on 
> the RISC OS side of things to talk to Linux for files

Or use Samba on the Linux side and LanManFS (or LanMan98 if you really 
must) on the RISC OS side.

These days I tend to use the SMB option (Samba + LanManFS) because I've 
seen some unexplained and unreproducible file corruption when writing 
*large* files to Sunfish using streams (OPENOUT followed by lots of 
BPUT#, followed by CLOSE#). I can't say that this is definitely Sunfish, 
but as the need to make the Linux box in question accessible to Windows 
as well as RISC OS forced the use of Samba, I took the opportunity to 
switch to LanManFS on RISC OS and keep an eye on the situation. The type 
of corruption being seen was hard to explain from a simple malfunction of 
the code in the application doing the writing.

There's also an NFS option in recent Omniclient installations on
RISC OS 5, which works well as an alternative to Sunfish with some 
limitations.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-08-30 10:15 +0000
  Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-08-30 11:30 +0100
    Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-30 12:22 +0100
  Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> - 2025-08-30 14:39 +0100
  Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-30 15:48 +0100
    Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-08-31 11:15 +0000
      Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-08-31 20:48 +0100
    Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-09-01 16:15 +0000
      Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-09-01 19:31 +0100
        Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-09-02 13:00 +0000
          Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-09-02 15:32 +0100
            Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines J Peachey <john@jpeachey.co.uk> - 2025-09-02 17:15 +0000
            Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-09-02 19:06 +0100
              Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-09-02 20:58 +0100
              Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-09-08 07:11 +0100
                Re: Getting RISC OS to talk to other machines druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-09-10 07:42 +0100

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