Sid Gale wrote:
> Frank van den Heuvel wrote:
> 
>> When I open the drive P: from the drives object it is empty. I
have fiddeled with its settings but nothing I tried worked. I expect this
has something to do with extended attributed. Or the fact that I still use
IBM PEER.
>>
> 
> Yes, I believe this happens because support for OS/2 EAs is not compiled 
> in to most NAS operating systems.
> 
>> Can this be solved by switching to Netdrive and the samba client?
>>
> 
> In the main, yes. I use Netdrive and the Samba plugin to access shares 
> on a NSLU2 NAS device. I can open the Netdrive-mapped drives on the 
> desktop and perform drag and drop actions without problems, However, 
> when the share is set up you have to be sure to disable EA support 
> within the plugin.
> 
>> Is there any make NAS that will be useable natively by OS/2 IBM PEER?
>>
> 
> I'm not aware of one.

Just to reiterate that I have had the same experience as Sid with a 
SimpleTech SimpleShare 500GB NAS.  I could not access it using the Peer in 
eCS 2.0, but using the Samba Netdrive plugin it works, though without the 
EA support since this NAS doesn't appear to support EAs.

Mark

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