Subj : Windows & Unix?
To   : tmcca
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 12:13:44

  Re: Windows & Unix?
  By: tmcca to Digital Man on Sat Feb 25 2023 10:31 am

 >
 > >   Re: Windows & Unix?
 > >   By: tmcca to Digital Man on Fri Feb 24 2023 01:34 pm
 >
 > > You would run an instance of Synchronet on Windows and an instance of
 > > Synchronet on Linux (as I posted before, but you didn't quote that part of
 > > the message). The 2 instances would share the same sbbs tree (e.g. using
 > > SMB/Samba, or possibly NFS). Users that want to play DOS door games would
 > > connect to the Windows instance at a different hostname, IP address, or
 > > port number than the Linux instance. Users that didn't care about DOS door
 > > games would connect to the Linux instance. Each instance would use a
 > > separate sbbs.ini file that specified the node range it would service:
 > > wiki.synchro.net/config:ini_files#filenaming
 >
 > > All other configuration and data files would be shared between the 2
 > > instaces. --

 > I am trying to see if this is correct.
 > I installed Synchronet on Windows C:\sbbs and on Linux /sbbs
 > I used samba and mounted it on my linux drive /sbbs like so sudo mount.cifs
 > //GAMEPC/sbbs /sbbs -o user=sbbs,uid=$UID
 >
 > in linux my sbbs.ini is named sbbs.linux.ini and nodes first 1 last 10 in .
 > Windows its sbbs.ini and nodes I have in there first 11
 >  and last 15
 >
 > sorry for all the questions, I am new to this.

One of the 2 systems (these are running on 2 different LAN-connected
computers?) needs to be the SMB server and the other the client. Myself, I make the Linux system the server, running Samba, and have the Windows system the client. So on Windows, the path to the Synchronet directory tree would not be "c:\sbbs" since that's on a local hard disk. You need to *share* the files between the 2 systems, so they need to be using the *same* files (not copies of the same files in different locations). So depending on how you map the Linux share drive, the actual Synchronet directory tree would appear as s:\sbbs or n:\sbbs or whatever drive letter your chose when you mapped the Samba share.
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                                            digital man (rob)

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #10:
BSO = Binkley Style Outbound
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 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

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