[bjames]

Years ago I was able to share files between windows  Xp and my octane and o2 by using windows explorer.  From memory I was able to create a network path from the windows computer to each sgi and save it as a drive path.  To access the sgi machine, all I had to do was enter my irix usr name and password and my usr home folder would show up in windows explorer. 

The sgi computers and windows computer were connected to a network hub, then router.

My question is how can I connect my windows 7/10 computer in the same way to the sgi so I can transfer files back and forth ie. have the /usr folder in irix appear in my windows explorer file folder?  I can’t remember how I had it setup 15 years ago.

[Raion]

If you have a good secured network, you can configure an FTP server on your IRIX machines and use winscp or any other ftp client to move files back and forth.

[Trippynet]

15 years ago, Sharity was a decent solution - an SMB client for IRIX that allowed it to natively mount Windows shares. Unfortunately, Sharity only supports SMB1 - which is not very secure and increasingly obsolete these days. The only other way I know of natively mounting shares is to set up an NFS server on Windows.

I did some work on this a while back and managed to get it working with the demo of XLink's OmniNFS server, but the demo expired. I'm yet to find a decent free NFS server for Windows 10 that works properly :(

[Intuition]

Yeah, the best method for me is the FTP method that Raion mentions. Though, I do not have the FTP program on my newer Octane Irix install.

Do we have an FTP for Irix on one of the mirror servers?

[Raion]

Nekoware has proftpd - I've also compiled pureftpd in the past.

[bjames]

Now that I think about it, I did have the network setup asa FTP. From the windows computer, I had a drive mapped to a fixed up address of the sgi box. I was able to use internet explorer or file explorer to simply connect to my /usr account in irix by entering my usr name and password.

I didn’t need to have any special apps installed on the Windows XP system, I just used tcp-ip protocols. On the SGI I may had Samba installed but honestly have no clue how it works.

A year ago I tried assigning a static ip to the sgi, and connect through the windows 7 explorer using FTP://ip address/iris/... but didn’t work. Both computers are connected to a 4 port router/link. I was also thinking about direct connecting the windows box and sgi using a twisted ethernet cable...

[tseter]

I use a Rapsberry Pi as a WLAN to Ethernet bridge to connect my Indigo2 to the Internet. A tutorial can be found on https://willhaley.com/blog/raspberry-pi-...et-bridge/

For file exchange, I use proftpd running on the Raspberry as well. I have enabled anonymous access by correspondingly adjusting /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

see also https://howtoraspberrypi.com/setup-ftp-s...pberry-pi/

Using this setup, I can access the ftp from IRIX with the ftp command and from Win10 or MacOS using Explorer or Finder respectively.

This works very well in my home network. I did not do any security audit though, so I am not sure whether this setup can keep your data safe - although anything involving IRIX must probably be considered "open access" for security purposes due to the lack of security updates and outdated encryption standards.