GoFlex Satellite

[p0ttyp1g30n]

Hello everybody.

Anyone knowing how to enable SAMBA or WebDAV or anything else in order to gain access to the disk using standard mounting options?

That would make the GFS a perfect little and autonomous NAS...

[Mogarych · Accepted solution]

I can share SAMBA 3.3.3, from Goflex Net.

It is small (no need in optware) and can be installed on satellite_firmware_xf_1.3.5.015.bin FW.

[Raymond L]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting the samba.zip 3.0 file much appreciated! just wanted to share my experiences as well.

Overall worked quite well as expected, few things i picked up (hopefully it will save time for other ppl that are keen on using SMB on goflex)

Summary:

• Step 4, found out that i needed to cp S99Samba into /etc/rc5.d (before step 5 "cp /usr/local/samba/etc/S99samba /etc/rc5.d/")
• Log files are stored in location "/usr/local/samba/var/" by default, you'll need to be mindful of the space on "/root" suggestions are to dump the log files into the HDD  ("log file = /media/sda1/logs/samba.log.%m") in smb.conf under "Global"

SMB Use case using IOS devices (Pass purely for backups on the go)

• IPad 1/3 + SD card reader (import pictures from camera) + "File browser" over SAMBA = ability to copy files across to goflex satellite device (Successful)
• IPad 1/3 + goodreader + zip content + open in -> "File browser" over SAMBA = ability to backup content without plugging into a PC/MBP (successful)

Performance over SMB:

• MBP 8.2, 30cm away from goflex (FW 1.3), COPY to MBP ~700mb speed 2.0-2.2 MB/s
• IPad 1, 30cm away from goflex using "FileBrowser",  COPY to IPad ~700mb speed 0.9-1 MB/s
• IPhone 4s, 30cm away from goflex using "File Browser", Copy to IPhone 4s ~700mb speed 0.9-1 MB/s

 Performance over default http via browser

• MBP 8.2, 30cm away from goflex (FW 1.3), COPY to MBP ~700mb speed 2.5-2.6MB/s
• IPad 1, 30cm away from goflex using "Downloader",  COPY to IPad ~700mb speed 0.9-1 MB/s

What i tried/Failed

• Initially had thoughts regarding CPU being the bottleneck, had ideas around having the CPU min freq to be closer to the "max" 800 MHZ (obviously numbers were set appropriately base on goflex max value - http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-tips-information-resources/195875-cpu-scaling-fixes-improve-batt... Outcome - no real difference/outcome
• Samba performance was lacking (tried to look into optimising the SMB config - http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/appb_02.html) - no real different/outcome
• Disable DLNA (ok) as SMB is now enabled using "Filebrowser" + "Good player" is a great combo. Wanted the 45 second boot - ready to go no indexing in the background...

My Ideas/next steps (reerformance)

• Perform more tests to determine if the 0.9MB/s-1MB/s performance over File Browser is IOS/app limitation ? will connect to my "proper" NAS to compare results 
• Get an andriod device to perform the same tests over SMB

If anyone else could post their SMB file transfer MB/Second it would be great to share our experience

[tyfoon1]

This indeed works great (with the additions of raymond L). 

I would prefer to switch of the DLNA functionality (SMB is all I need and the indexing takes too much CPU causing the first few minutes stutter in streaming via SMB), how do I do this? Does this impact anything else?

[Raymond L]

Hi There,

Thanks for the nice feedback.

with re: to DLNA, for my needs i have also disabled this. For reference i had followed the steps described in - http://www.hackseagatesatellite.com/wordpress/2011/10/24/step-4-getting-lighthttpd-to-work-on-your-s...

Obviously i ignored/skipped sections that had mention lighthttpd and only focus parts where they had mention commenting out DLNA startup.

Hope you find this useful!

[Leo42]

Works fine for me, thank you Mogarych. I confirm the file transfer speed found by Raymond L. Pay attention at the memory usage. After installing samba 3, I am at 90%.

[Raymond L]

Hi there,

Just wanted to quickly give you an update!

Re: DLNA, as discussed DLNA for me is not required (for my use case scenario) i have noted that sbin file is 8MB (

/satellite_app/minidlna/sbin) i have deleted it (backed it up to hdd before hand etc) to save space.

So with SSH + SFTP + Samba (without DLNA) my stats are..

"top" - memory

re: mem - 113 116k used, 12 404k free

"df -h" - space 

/dev/root/ size 60mb used: 50.4mb free: 10.1mb

[taxidriver6]

Can anyone advise if there is still a risk of filling up your root drive and bricking using this method? And can this work with the latest firmware?

Thanks...

[Raymond L]

Hi there, yup it works on the latest firmware.

Re:bricking it, you just need to be careful with the space, just point the samba logs to the hard drive and you should be fine.

[tyfoon1]

Altough SMB seems reliable I can't get a full HD MKV movie to stream nice to either my Ipad 1 nore Ipad 3. I tried in Oplayer, Goodplayer and Aceplayer.

The strange thing is that this works quite well for my jailbroken ipad 1 in XMBC (latest version) So even full HD works. 

A 720p mkv plays reasonable on the Ipad 3 in goodplayer but if I skip forward audio/video get's out of sync.

Are you getting full HD streaming?

ps. this is also not working with DLNA