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hi,
i would appreciate some help from you guys.
I am new to this amazing solution and i am very enthusiastic with it.

but the thing is that i am running into some problems and i cant figure it out. I have searched google and the forums but i cant find the solution.

here goes:

i have installed amahi with fedora 14 on a new machine. it is running as dhcp and dns server.

i have mounted a new HDD (that has many files i wish to keep) and i can se the files perfectly on fedora explorer.

I then created a share on amahi setup for this HDD.

on my windows 7 machine i can see the shares from the amahi (pictures, music, etc) and also my share for the HDD with contents

the problem is that when i open the share on my windows 7 machine it is empty! Also, if a creat there a folder it stays there but on the server if i go to the file explorer and open the HDD contents that folder is not there! what a mess! I can't understand what's going on.

Please give some help or point me to some documentation related to this.

Also, why cant i access the shares from the amahi on the server explorer? i see the hda i click it and it doesnt open, it says "not able to mount location..."

Many thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Your share directories are located in /var/hda/files/*.

What is the mount point of your new drive?
On your hda, open a terminal and type 'df -h' and show us the output.

Hi, thanks for your help. I found the problem and it was my error. Just did hda-diskmount and then every think started to make sense and to work.

The thing i found now is 2 other issues:

on my windows 7 laptop copying a 4Gb file from the share to my pc goes at proximately 2 to 3 Mb/s... copying from the laptop to the share is about the same.

also when the file is being copied, my laptop just cant open any web site... it gets so slowly...

as soon as the copy ends the internet works fine again!

do you have any ideas?
(my amahi is installed on a intel dual core 3ghz with 2Gb RAM)
(lan is 100Mb from the server to swith then from swith to wifi access point and finaly to my wifi laptop)

anyway i think i should be getting better transfer rates, or not?

Best regards,

If your laptop is connected using wireless, that 2 - 3 MB/sec is a major chunk of the network bandwidth, so that would slow down other wireless network traffic.

Connect via ethernet cable and your file transfer will be faster.

I resolved this issue by running 755 change mode command on all my drives associated with my shares. NOTE: not my /boot, /dev/shm/, /home, etc. Only the drives associated with /var/hda/files/drives/*
755 means read and execute access for everyone and also write access for the owner of the file. When you perform chmod 755 filename command you allow everyone to read and execute the file, owner is allowed to write to the file as well.

Although, "everyone" is a generic term, I'm assuming it is meant as "all users" except where explicitly denied.

A note to the Amahi gods: why isn't this in the hda-diskmount bash script?

Good to hear you have resolved your issue.

Something might not have been setup correctly with your HDA. I have used this script and had no issues. I am using Win 7 clients as well.

I am sure this could be added if necessary. Recommend you submit a bug to ensure its on the list of future improvements.