Nas to powerpc, best way?

[skinniezinho]

Hello all,
Hope you are all well and enjoying your powerpcs.
Slowly getting my PB G4 up to date and in the process of getting a g5.
Recently I got a QNAP TS-128A NAS (running QS 5.2) with a 1Tb HDD.
The aim was/is to have my files acessible both on my network and remotely on the following devices:
- Mac Mini 2014 running 12.7.6
- PB G4 running 10.5.8
- Core2Quad PC running XP/Linux and Windows 10 - retro gaming
- Thinkpad X13 running windows 11

With the intention of: download some files if needed,playing music on these devices from the NAS, maybe some videos/photos, and sync some backups.

I am complete noob on networks, and I am doing my best to try to arrive to this aim, with some google searching, but for now the powerbook is giving me a beat.

On the macmini I can install the qfinderpro app and I mount the NAS HDD as an HDD and it appears me on finder, easy
On the powerbook, there is no qfinder app, so from my understanding:

- SMB protocol: if I understood well this is what I need so the PB G4 can detect the nas has a disk correct?

SMB is activated on the NAS and can go down to SMB1.0 till 3.0)
I am trying to have samba 4.0 from macports, which has been quite a manual process, with constant "sudo port -f activate XXXXXX" for certain dependencies...still going but it has been like 1 day.
Q1: I heard about DAVE, would it be ok, or better to still try to have SAMBA 4.0 or 3.0 from macports?
Q2: If better 3.0 or 4.0 from macports is there a more straightforward way to do it?

-FTP Protocol: this allows me to acess to the files, and download them. Here I may have some issue because I can connect but can't download. Used filezilla and cyberduck. No go.Both on the PB G4 and Mac Mini.
Q3:would this protocol be useful for media playing?

-WebDAV:this allows me to acess to the files, and download them. Working fine on the PB G4 using cyberduck.
Q4:would this protocol be useful for media playing? which apps can use it?

Are there any other protocols/solutions I should explore? Currently I see my NAS supports
AFP
NFS from V2 to v4.1

Let me know

Have a great day

edit: tested AFP and I managed to have acess to my files via finder on my powerbook! hurray! Still keen on listening to your opinions and know more about each protocols and which ones are more suitable for my use case.

 

[eyoungren]

Glad you found AFP. I looked at your NAS and it does support it.

TS-128A | Software Specs

Equipped with a Realtek RTD1295 quad-core processor, the TS-128A provides home users with powerful features including snapshot-based backup, file synchronization, and private cloud services. The TS-128A is also a one-stop home entertainment portal for streaming photos, music, and videos to...

www.qnap.com

Just have both SMB and AFP enabled. Use SMB for newer Macs and AFP for older Macs. Up until Mavericks, SMB was implemented as Apple's version of the protocol. Once Mavericks was released, Apple went with the standard SMB protocol that everyone else has been using for decades. And then it deprecated AFP.

But AFP still works on older Macs and a lot of devices still use it - hence your QNAP uses AFP and your PowerBook can connect. And newer Macs can still use AFP, they just can't fileshare via AFP.

You could install DAVE on your PowerBook and access things via SMB if you wanted. But I don't see a point to that unless you're going to be using SMB with other stuff. DAVE was simply a product by Thursby that replaced the Apple version of SMB with the standard SMB protocol. It's not going to give you SMB3 though, at least not older versions of DAVE. You'll get SMB2.

If you use 'Connect to Server' from Finder, and connect that way, you can also try and force SMB1 by using CIFS://192.168.0.0 (where the IP address is the address of your QNAP NAS).

However, even if that works, expect transfer speeds to be slower than AFP.

 

[micahgartman]

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