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[Q] CIFS support in kernel

I am not a developer, and I know NC just rooted in few days but we have made great progress to make NC as a full function tablet. I am just curious to know how far we leave to have a CIFS supported kernel.
My dream is quite simple, I want my NC can play tons of video files in my NAS via wifi, so CIFS kernel is the first step to make it true.

Kernel version
If someone can tell me the Android kernel version that is on the NookColor I can experiment with CIFS.
Thanks in advance,

according Nookdevs,
Operating system Android 2.1 (Eclair based on Linux kernel 2.6.29)

ctos said:
I am not a developer, and I know NC just rooted in few days but we have made great progress to make NC as a full function tablet. I am just curious to know how far we leave to have a CIFS supported kernel.
My dream is quite simple, I want my NC can play tons of video files in my NAS via wifi, so CIFS kernel is the first step to make it true.
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If we can get CIFS support then we can use CIFS manager to mount shares locally.
and use rockplayer or the built in media player to play videos over wifi.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756158
I wonder if we can compile the CIFS.ko module from the source released by B&N.
I will have a look over the weekend if time permits.

hi dascud,
nice to hear you will have a try and waiting for your good news.

i'm not a *nix developer, but since we can install Optware on the NC can we install the samba packages and achieve this?

Samba is probably too fat for the nook. CIFS kernel support shouldn't bo difficult. Mounting the shares directly is way more efficient.

ctos said:
hi dascud,
nice to hear you will have a try and waiting for your good news.
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So I downloaded the source and compiled the cifs module and the nls_utf8 modules.
modinfo shows that the modules version is
vermagic: 2.6.29-omap1 preempt mod_unload ARMv7 which matches with the running nook kernel.
Unfortunately no luck trying to insmod the modules.
I think the running kernel may have no support for loadable modules and we may need to recompile and replace the stock kernel for loadable module support.
If anyone else wants to give it a shot here are the links to the compiled modules.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16190398/cifs.ko
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16190398/nls_utf8.ko

dascud said:
Unfortunately no luck trying to insmod the modules.
I think the running kernel may have no support for loadable modules and we may need to recompile and replace the stock kernel for loadable module support.
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I only dabble in Linux so I may be way off here, but I'm pretty sure there's loadable modules in the firmware that are being used.

clockworx said:
I only dabble in Linux so I may be way off here, but I'm pretty sure there's loadable modules in the firmware that are being used.
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Ok. We have a working cifs.ko and nls_utf.ko . I was able to mount my win7 share using cifs manager and play a few movies using mvideoplayer from the mounted share.
My initial problem seemed to be that I used the android ndk toolchain and the nook kernel is compiled with the codeSourcery toolchain.
After I re-compiled using the codeSourcery toolchain everything works (at least for now)
For those who want to try this.
Download the cifs.ko and nls_utf8.ko modules.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16190398/cifs.ko
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16190398/nls_utf8.ko
Mount /system as read write and create a directory under /system/lib called modules. Just copy the cifs.ko and nls_utf8.ko modules under this directory.
Type the following from your windows or linux console.
adb shell
#mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
#su
#cd /system/lib
#mkdir modules
#exit
#exit
Now you are back in your windows or linux command prompt
adb push cifs.ko /system/lib/modules
adb push nls_utf8.ko /system/lib/modules
adb shell
#su
#insmod /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
#insmod /system/lib/modules/nsl_utf8.ko
if everything went well you should see no errors.
#lsmod
(THis should give you a list of running modules)
You should see something like
nls_utf8 1856 0 - Live 0xbf153000
cifs 240060 0 - Live 0xbf113000
#exit
#exit
Download cifs_manager from the android market and follow the instructions from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756158
BTW, you can copy the modules anywhere you like even under /sdcard/modules but the default path used by cifs_manager is /system/lib/modules.

Awesome! I am eager to try this out. I have CiFs working on my EvO and it rocks.
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Cool! Dascud, you are the man!
I will have a test after upgrading my NC to 1.0.1.
Thanks a million for your efforts!

Nice.
Installed the modules and cifs manager (which I haven't used before.)
Just set up a test share...
NC rebooted.
Booting again now, not sure what is up. I have not had any file sharing configured on my network for a while so its entirely possible that I have a share misconfigured or something not installed. Late now, so I will try more tomorrow.

can somebody please reupload
cifs.ko
nls_utf8.ko
They are not on dropbox any longer.
Thanks.

There you go....

thank you ser

Does anyone know if this will work in rooted 1.2? tried the steps as described, have cifs.ko and nls_utf8.ko in /system/lib/modules, but all I get is "Exec format error"
Any ideas? Thanks!

CIFS Module for Windows Networking (ROOTed ONLY)

Attached are cifs modules for use with the CIFS Manager application in the market. CIFS Manager lets you mount Windows SMB network shares on your filesystem. This allows you to stream content from Windows to your Xoom without having to download it first.
> You must have rooted your Xoom to install the cifs module and to use CIFS Manager.
> I am not the author of the cifs module or CIFS Manager. I merely compiled up the cifs module from the kernel source for your enjoyment.
There are two different zips attached. Use cifs.zip if you have rooted your Xoom and are running koush's kernel. Use cifs-overclock.zip if you have rooted your Xoom and are using coolbho3000's overclocked kernel.
Copy the cifs.ko module to /system/lib/modules using adb:
Code:
adb remount
adb push cifs.ko /system/lib/modules
adb reboot
Then install the CIFS Manager application and enjoy browsing content on your Windows server.

thanks much

I am just a newb to all this but can someone please explain how to setup cifs to see and work with shares?

Just curious, do I have to use a ADB to get the file there or will root explorer do?
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question 1)
- install cifs.ko
- install cifs manager or mount manager
- configure share to mount (server/share user/passwd if required)
and that's it
question 2)
root explorer will work just fine (remember to remount /system as rw)

is this working for anyone since the OTA? module loads for me, but just won't mount.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=994246

onicrom said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=994246
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I wonder if it has anything to do with why busybox can't handle domain names. 'wget' has to have an IP address, it won't resolve a name.

Well I don't use the fqdn just the hostname
# cat /system/etc/hosts
192.168.1.2. samba
mount doesn't use busybody afaik, but interesting thought
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Sweet, thanks. Looking forward to trying it out.

I got all of it working but it just stopped. I can't mount anything. Twice I was about to reboot the server and the XOOM and started working again. I can use Scanshares and it can see my server and all the shares.

Will either of these work for any recent kernels? I'm trying to mount but I get "no such device" error.

jlaw904 said:
Will either of these work for any recent kernels? I'm trying to mount but I get "no such device" error.
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The cifs module needs to be compiled against your kernel source. So if using a custom kernel ask your developer for a copy.

any chance to have a cfis file for the 3.1 Fw ?

Wondering the same thing -- anyone have any luck finding an updated version for the stock 3.1 kernel?

As a rooted user, on all Tiamat kernels, I found a method to mount my windows drives by doing the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036316&highlight=how+to+mount
Be sure to install Busybox (both versions from the market were install on my xoom since it kept asking for it) to make it work. I wrote the instructions using Mount Manager but Cifs Manager works the same.

Shameless thread bump -- anyone have any luck compiling the modules for 3.1 stock?

I'm using the 1.4.4 Tiamat kernel on my US 3G Xoom, and I couldn't use either of the above modules -- I got "invalid module format." I can't update to 3.2 yet, being a 3G user (grumble), so I downloaded the source for the Tiamat kernel 1.4.4 from the Git repository and compiled my own cifs.ko module using Nvidia's Tegra development kit's toolchain. But now it says "Unknown symbol in module or invalid parameter." Better, but still not working. Anybody know what I did wrong?

Are there any news about this?
i'm struggling to stream videos to my 3.1 rooted xoom...

No updatie
Since this requires a rooted Xoom and Tiamat has an awesome kernel that includes these modules, I am not updating them any more.

[Q] CM6 for milestone with a working openvpn?

hi. I installed CM6.1.2 for milestone (thanks doshaska) beta on my milstone (not droid) mainly because I really want to use openvpn .
However there seems no tun/tap module in /system/lib/modules (i first looked /lib/modules hoping modules lies in the normal linux module path) and also can't connect to the openvpn server with the default vpn setting program.dmesg says "Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically"
Is the missing tun module the reason ? If so , any possiblity in the future that someone can compile the tun module for the CM6 kernel?
btw, I heard something about 2nd-boot . Is there any possiblity to run a complete new kernel avoiding the the damn locked bootload using the 2nd-boot?
PS: sorry for my poor english....

[QUESTION] SSHFS or something akin to it for Android?

I'm really looking for an app that I can use to SSHFS essentially, so that I can sorta' use a mounted remote dir as an extension of my phones storage, much like you would do in normal, every-day linux.
Is there such a thing? To date, I have not been able to find anything...

You would first need to get Fuse working with the kernel. If/once we can boot custom kernels, it's possible one might ship with Fuse enabled but according to
http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel/browse_thread/thread/096dda136ce772cb
stock does not have Fuse. Stock does support modules though and I'm fairly sure you can compile Fuse as a module. You'd need to get ahold of the Droid 3 stock kernel source, cross compile a module for Arm and try and get it to not kernel panic the phone. Once you have Fuse in there, it shouldn't be too bad to build a copy of sshfs.
In the mean time, I have found https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.fx to be an incredible file manager that support SSH, SMB, and FTP. The only thing missing would be root.
Anyway, I think Fuse support would be awesome but don't have time to work on it at the moment. Do we have the D3 kernel source somewhere?

Naex said:
You would first need to get Fuse working with the kernel. If/once we can boot custom kernels, it's possible one might ship with Fuse enabled but according to
http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel/browse_thread/thread/096dda136ce772cb
stock does not have Fuse. Stock does support modules though and I'm fairly sure you can compile Fuse as a module. You'd need to get ahold of the Droid 3 stock kernel source, cross compile a module for Arm and try and get it to not kernel panic the phone. Once you have Fuse in there, it shouldn't be too bad to build a copy of sshfs.
In the mean time, I have found https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.fx to be an incredible file manager that support SSH, SMB, and FTP. The only thing missing would be root.
Anyway, I think Fuse support would be awesome but don't have time to work on it at the moment. Do we have the D3 kernel source somewhere?
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Yes, D3 source has been released. There's a thread on it here on XDA in the dev section. Thank's for the info!

[Q] Mounting Files with CIFS manager

Hi,
I tried to mount files from my local NAS, but it does not work anymore. I used CIFS Manager in the past and it always worked fine. Now I have a new Phone with Android 4.2.2 ( Stock) and it doesn't work anymore. I am not sure, but it might be a Kernel related problem?
I already tried these .ko modules from post #5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33498303#post33498303
but I think this is beyond my knowlodge. It's not working on my phone.
The error: "Invalid argument" pops up every time it tries to connect.
Is there a way to get this working? I suppose there is no alternative kernel yet than stock?
Cheers

Use AndSMB
Try AndSMB, I had the exact same problem with the invalid argument crap and AndSMB worked immediately and without issue. I dicked around with CifsManager for a while and never had any success.

Hi all, if your goal is simply to play music and video from your NAS to your android device, you can use Kodi (xbmc) that can access cifs path directly!