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Large Download Pi Server
sudo apt install lynx
Then use
lynx https://example.com/example.zip
Or without installing anything extra
wget https://example.com/example.zip
or
curl https://example.com/example.zip
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Sharing exFAT drive via Netatalk, can't create directories
I was able to solve this problem by adding:
unix priv = no
to the [share] section in /etc/netatalk/afp.conf.
Inspirational source:
http://www.gattis.org/Work-and-Tech/operating-systems-and-...
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Increase transfer rate with Samba using Raspberry Pi 3
SMB transfer speeds can be quite disappointing, especially when handling lots of small files. Then again, an RPi might not be the best choice as a NAS/file server in the first place. Still, just 1 MB/...
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Mapping to Shared Drive on Linksys Router
Solved.
I was missing leading /
vers=1.0 may have helped
Drive had two logical names. S-Drive wasn't working. Seagate was.
Use:
sudo mount --verbose -o username=John,password=********,vers=1.0 //...
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How can the Raspberry Pi emulate a USB storage device?
The Pi Zero and Pi Zero W are now available and support the Gadget interface (Kernal.org, linux-sunxi.org) allowing several different profiles, including USB Mass Storage and virtual networking.
The ...
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Do HDDs drain power when not in use?
Interestingly the power consumption of modern HDD is pretty low and comparable with an Rpi.
https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption suggests Rpi 3B is around 2W.
https://www....
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FTP Server Installing on Pi 3 Debian Strench 9
I do not understand why VSFTPD, ProFTPD, PureFTPD should not work. They all are available from the default Raspbian repository. You should be able to just install one of them, configure and run it.
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Increase transfer rate with Samba using Raspberry Pi 3
there are several things here, although the physical ethernet connection is 100Mbits/s the ethernet chip is hung off of a usb bus that is shared with other devices, so as quoted above the maximum ...
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Raspberry-Pi vs Router as a home data server
The Rpi has a better CPU and far more RAM, but the WR1043ND has got gigabit Ethernet.
Depending on which file sharing protocol you plan to use (samba, nfs, ...) one could be better than the other.
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How can I connect to my RPi NFS server using version 4?
/exports/myfolder 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide)
run exportfs -ra and check your exports with 'exportfs -rv' command.
then try to mount it :
mount -t nfs4 192.168.1.91:/...
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Accessing the samba shared files from the raspi
[EDITED RESPONSE II]
I will guess that the inode/x-corrpted message may be due to some permissions issues between your RPi and your Windoze machine. If that's the case, your files are not actually ...
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Access files from one raspi of another
Answers:
Yes - Samba is a good choice for what you want to do.
There are many good resources for setting up Samba, here's one I created
The main alternative for Samba is NFS. Each has its pros and ...
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Do HDDs drain power when not in use?
Yes, even if they are not spinning, they consume power to keep the drive mounted and be able to communicate with the HDD. This schould be not an issue. In the domain of SBCs the more important thing ...
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rpi4 reliability boot ssd vs boot sdcard + ssd active drive
A normal cell in an SD card should have a write of about 25 000 times (better for high quality, lower for bad quality). In addition, logic re-routes the used cells, and good quality cards have some ...
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Access files from one raspi of another
Another option for network file sharing is sshfs, which allows you to mount a remote directory locally over an encrypted connection.
It is very easy to configure and enabled by default on Raspbian ...
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Accessing files on a apache server from USB via PHP
I found the solution myself.
The trick is: linking the the two folders by a symbolic link
Opening terminal from within the "files" folder (/var/www/html/files on the Pi), and type:
sudo ln -...
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Share data between different
I did something similar and used this basic set-up:
Remotes controlling sensors send data to central. In my case I send JSON with the data over http.
Central stores data in a MySQL database when the ...
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How to copy file to USB Mounted on Pi from SSH Server
Per the comments, I just needed to use the sftp.get method, not .put.
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Increase transfer rate with Samba using Raspberry Pi 3
I obtained the best results using Samba under Open Media Vault the Operative System optimized for NAS use case: https://www.openmediavault.org
If you want to try in your existing Samba, you can try ...
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RPi-compatible online backup service
To make up an RPi-compatible backup service, I can advise you to install CrashPlan on Raspberry Pi. For that (as CrashPlan works only on x86 Linux) you need to use some Linux environment emulator to ...
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RPi-compatible online backup service
IDrive has linux scripts which work on rpi. The scripts use the QNAP NAS (ARM) binaries, which happen to work well. These scripts can also be used to set up scheduled backups
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Use rPi as a remote access a network drive when outside of network
I'd recommend having a conversation with your IT department about viable alternatives for access (for example getting VPN access) rather than trying to engineer out some solution yourself.
Not only ...
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Raspberry Raid 0 gains
Hmm, I got much faster reads from 4x USB drives as a raid than a single.
I currently have a raid 0 of old HDD's running MySQL server at the moment, and it moves through data pretty quickly. For some ...
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