[blacksmith]

Hello there,
On which CD from SGI can I fiund Samba to install?

[Raion]

Are you looking for the SERVER or the Client?

If you do not require the server software, have you tried these? https://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html

The server software came on a separate CD - and unfortunately I do not have the tarball of that or anything. SMB server on IRIX is very miserable - it's buggy, the OS hangs if there's any hard disconnects (i.e. if a client loses connection instead of logging off) and it's old, so you cannot connect to newer versions.

https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/065.../ch01.html

For more info on the implementation, start there.

For a better server alternative, use NFS - it works better with IRIX and can also be ran from a BSD, Solaris or other host.

[Jacques]

I would second NFS, I have my RasPi as my NFS server share and my SGI's happily pull / push files to it.

[VPCII]

[...]I have my RasPi as my NFS server share[...]

Small files I imagine? The performance I experienced using one of those for similar purposes was abysmal.

[Jacques]

No, I pull 500mb tarballs from it and use it as my IRIX install server as well. I'm not after mega speed as I've I've pulled a file across it's OK. I'm also running mSATA on mine so it maxes out the USB2 speeds. Raspi4 should be much, much faster.

Edit- reads from it saturate my little 100Mbit switch, writing is a bit slower to the Pi, but I hardly write anything to it.

[jan-jaap]

Most NASes run some form of Linux under the hood and will do SMB, NFS and AFP (for older Apple devices).

NB: My Origin 350 has been sharing > 4TB of space using Samba 3.6.3 since 2012 or so. Works fine, even if it is somewhat ridiculous to use an O350 for that

[Darkstar]

Just install Nekoware's Samba port. Didi this some years ago at a customer site where they needed to exchange CATIA files between Windows and IRIX, and it was deemed that CIFS was the only way to go. Installed Samba and its deps, and customer was happy. That installation is probably still running

Edit: typo

[Raion]

AFAIK the nekoware port is a client application? I could be wrong however. If you want to run server, I'm pretty sure you need the relevant distfiles from SGI, but I have never tried running smbfs on IRIX because nfs has served my use-case.

[Darkstar]

No, it's actually the server, plus some user-space client tools (smbclient etc.), but not the in-kernel filesystem, so you cannot mount a CIFS share from IRIX with Nekoware's Samba port. But if you want to serve files from IRIX to any clients, the Nekoware port works fine.