arozos VS Samba

Using this function and, if you have a few nodes with "ArozOS" installed, you can easily add all nodes into the Zoraxy WoL table and kick start them one by one remotely.

TL.DR. I wrote a reverse proxy system for my Web Desktop OS back in 2019, later on I added in tons of other web routing features I need like redirections, blacklist + geo-ip, Zerotier controller and so on. Finally it become the reverse proxy version of swiss knift for my distributed homelab setup.

Hope you like this project! We are continuing updating the modules of this system to better fit our use cases. If you are interested to try it out or even contribute to this project, feel frees to find the source code and give us a star 🌟 in the attached Github link below.

u/survivalmachine As mentioned in previous comments, I am working on a Web Desktop OS project in which I want to add SMB support (both client and server). I already got SMB client working based on go-smb2.

If you are a long time user of my open source web desktop system ArozOS, the chances are, you might never notice there is actually a hidden humans.txt file in your web root. Here is my system hosting on my tiny server powered by a orange pi zero 2 single board computer.

Recently, I encountered another issue when I am trying to migrate my whole Google Drive to my own ARM powered DIY NAS. The issue was that my NAS only have 512MB + 32GB (microSD card) as OS drive, while I have 2 x 512GB HDD attached to the SBC to store files. Uploading a file with size >32GB will causing the system to run out of space and crashing my ArozOS NAS OS .

I have recently been traveling to another city. That is why I brought with me my trusty NUC installed with Debian + ArozOS besides my laptop. As this is my first time loading a few TB worth of files into this system, I soon running into issues where all the files I uploaded to the NUC is hard to find and I don't know what I have uploaded to the web desktop interface. This is how the systems look like before I start traveling.

I have been working on an open source web desktop system called ArozOS for 3+ years now. In simple words, it is a web desktop system that actually do works like a real OS.

Full version of the function is over here: https://github.com/tobychui/arozos/blob/7251f4bf945f22b8a08d4dcfdcf4618baf16ac75/src/file_system.go#L506

I own a few 3D printers so I decided to write myself a system to do cloud slicing and put it on Github. This is a few screenshots showing the slicer running on ArozOS Web Desktop System

Samba

The TLDR is that you create the filesystem on Linux/Raspberry Pi. Then you "export" that file system via some software to remote computers. You can use Samba (https://www.samba.org/) to create CIFS shares which can be mounted by either Linux or Microsoft Windows devices. There are of course other software/protocols you can use to export the filesystems like NFS, iSCSI, CEPHFS, etc; but these are a bit more complicated than what a novice can deploy. I would start with Samba/CIFS and then branch out once you get more experienced.

You could try to use samba via cgo.

I think you want a CIFS/SMB client? A quick search turned up smbc, which looks like it does what you want. All three crates are based on libsmbclient, which is a C implementation from the Samba project.

Remember kids, there is always Samba.

> First, the article doesn't say that "Linux is not ready for the desktop" - or concern itself with this as an abstract question.

Well, it does, but in a sarcastic manner:

"Yeah, let's consider Linux an OS ready for the desktop :-)."

> Also, I find the "GNU/Linux is already ready for the desktop; I and others use it" argument tired. I've used GNU/Linux for the desktop in 1998, but it sure as hell wasn't ready then.

Conversely, that it doesn't work for certain people does not mean that "it is not ready", which the post does state (sarcastically) as I pointed out above.

> Many use cases aside...

I'm not sure how the browsing, docs and email is miserable, maybe you can expand on that. The video editing is indeed a bit limited from my experience too. However, I don't think "limited proprietary options" is a problem. The community largely and specifically avoids proprietary software. Proprietary incursions into the community are generally seen as a negative thing. And for the lack of codecs, software patents for the most part are to blame.

And then it just comes to my original statement; many things stated in the article are non-issues to most Linux users or just falsehoods:

- Neither Mozilla Firefox nor Google Chrome use video decoding and output acceleration in Linux.

Firefox does.

- NVIDIA Optimus technology is a pain

NVIDIA is a pain.

- You don't play games, do you?

I do.

- Linux still has very few native AAA games.

So "it's not ready" because it doesn't have AAA games? What a pitty.

- To be fair you can now run thousands of Windows games through DirectX to Vulkan/OpenGL translation (Wine, Proton, Steam for Linux) but this incurs translation costs and decreases performance sometimes significantly.

No, not 'significantly' for dxvk.

- Also, anti-cheat protection usually doesn't work in Linux.

For good reason. Blame the dev, and don't make it work on Linux.

- Microsoft Office is not available for Linux

Thankfull.

- LibreOffice often has major troubles properly opening, rendering or saving documents created in Microsoft Office.

And whose fault is this? Use ODT.

- Several crucial Windows applications are not available under Linux.

Thankfully. Also, 'crucial' is subjective.

- In 2022 there's still no alternative to Windows Network File Sharing.

It's available since 1992: https://www.samba.org/

- Linux doesn't have a reliably working hassle-free fast native (directly mountable via the kernel; FUSE doesn't cut it) MTP implementation.

I can transfer files to my phone just fine.

- Too many things in Linux require manual configuration using text files.

No.

etc.

I have a media server that runs ubuntu, and today I wanted to copy some files off of it from my windows laptop. But the samba shares weren't showing up in file explorer (but they showed up on fine on my macbook).

brew info samba samba: stable 4.16.0 (bottled) SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for UNIX https://www.samba.org/ Not installed From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/samba.rb License: GPL-3.0-or-later ==> Dependencies Build: [email protected] ✔ Required: gnutls ✘, krb5 ✔ ==> Caveats To avoid conflicting with macOS system binaries, some files were installed with non-standard name: - smbd: /usr/local/sbin/samba-dot-org-smbd - profiles: /usr/local/bin/samba-dot-org-profiles ==> Analytics install: 1,477 (30 days), 3,287 (90 days), 6,917 (365 days) install-on-request: 1,459 (30 days), 3,246 (90 days), 6,863 (365 days) build-error: 5 (30 days)