Using netfs

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Is it possible to use netfs in haiku now? What need to do for setup netfs?

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Any ideas?
Is it possible to share files, attributes and queries by network?

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Stippi had this to say when he committed NetFS:

You will want to edit /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/netfs-server before you run netfs_server for the first time (or use netfs_server_prefs on the command line, see below).

To run the server:

$ /system/servers/netfs_server &

To run the client:

$ /system/servers/authentication_server &
$ mkdir /network
$ mount -t userlandfs -p "netfs """ /network

A "Network" icon will appear on your desktop. Remote servers will appear inside the "Network" folder (host name). Inside a folder for a server are the shares of that server. (I.e. what has been defined as share in that respective server's netfs-server driver settings file). netfs_server has actually a new settings file format, you can create settings by using "netfs_server_prefs --help" on the command line. Have fun!

Hope this helps - I haven't tried it yet myself!

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I am trying to setup netfs trough the netfs_server_prefs command, but it fails to open and create its settings file:

On launch:

netfs_server [101626732744:  5945] NetFSServer::_InitSettings(): WARNING: Failed to load settings file: No such file or directory - falling back to driver settings.

On saving settings:

Failed to save settings, No such file or directory

I tried to create an empty file with

touch /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/netfs-server
and
mkdir -p /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/netfs-server

but none seems to help. strace doesn’t tells me, where the settings file searched. Any idea?

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You would need to use strace on the server, apparently, the prefs app doesn’t do much more than messaging.
Otherwise, use the source, Luke! Looking at https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/add-ons/kernel/file_systems/netfs/server/NetFSServer.cpp#n1018, it seems that you have to create the “netfs” directory in the user settings directory, not the kernel settings directory (that seems to be the new settings file format).

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I should mention a known and possibly relevant limitation (depending on what you’re doing): the network protocol used by netfs depends on the OS architecture, and so the 32 and 64bit versions won’t talk to each other. Knowing this will save you some head-scratching if that’s what you’re trying to set up.

There is already a bugreport about it but no one investigated it yet.

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Thanks but i use exclusively 64 bit on my machines.

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Thanks, will check!

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After i made the settings folder:
/boot/home/config/settings/netfs
And setting it up with the netfs_server_prefs command, the server side works.

On the client side i had to change the last command to this:

$ mount -t userlandfs -p netfs /network

Now it works very well.

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How hard would it be to port netfs to a fuse capable os (like linux)? This would be very useful…