tnfs server on mac?

[FractalCZ]

13 hours ago, darwinmac said:

That’s correct. To have the tnfsd daemon run automatically on restart, I think you’ll need to add it to launchd. I haven’t had the time to make it work yet. 
 

Bob C
 

 

At this time, it's not necessary as I don't switch my atari on on daily basis.

[FractalCZ]

OK, getting somewhere. The Fujinet and the server are obviously seeing each other, but I have no folder listing at all. At the atari side, it just jumps to the "wifi overview" screen. On the Mac side, I have this output. What am I missing?

[FractalCZ]

OMG - found it myself. I forgot "~" in front of my desired path. It works like a charm.

[darwinmac]

Finally, I had time to pull my hair out and get the tnfsd daemon working on launchd. That makes it so tnfsd is always running if my Mac is turned on and logged in to my user account. If my Mac is turned on, it's always logged into my user account. If you wanted tnfsd running on any account, that would be a LaunchDaemon which I didn't set up. That's left as an exercise for the reader.

 

Anyway, I'll include my plist and the shell script I wrote tagged as spoilers so those of you who don't care won't have to scroll past it. It felt good to finally get this working. Thom has instructions for Windows users on how to get tnfsd running on boot, but nothing for macOS since I don't think he runs that OS.

 

Bob C

 

Spoiler

Plist file created in ~/Library/LaunchAgents saved as com.bobc.tnfsd.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
        <dict>
                <key>Label</key>
                <string>com.bobc.tnfsd</string>
                <key>ProgramArguments</key>
                <array>
                <string>/opt/local/tnfsd.sh</string>
                </array>
                <key>RunAtLoad</key>
                <true/>
        </dict>
</plist>
 

Shell script created with filename of tnfsd.sh saved in /opt/local directory:

/opt/local/tnfsd /Users/bobc/Documents/Altirra

 

/Users/bobc/Documents/Altirra is where I keep my Atari 8-bit files for Fujinet to browse. I could've written this as ~/Documents/Altirra, but I was trying to eliminate every possible failure point. From my reading, it appears that plist files run in ~/Library/LaunchAgents run as that logged in user. If that's the case, then "~/" would've worked.

 

com.bobc.tnfsd.plist tnfsd.sh

Edited August 26, 2023 by darwinmac

[darwinmac]

For anyone who may care, here's an updated launchd plist file that doesn't require the extra script. I couldn't get the "~/" shorthand to work. I don't remember if that's a limitation in tnfsd or simply I did wrong in the plist file. The "ps" command showed the correct parameter, but Fujinet said it couldn't mount the host until I wrote out /Users/bobc/Documents/Altirra in the plist file (where my 8-bit files are stored on my Mac).

 

Hopefully, this will help someone who's trying to automatically boot tnfsd on their Mac and is having problems. If you're running an older version of macOS, it may still be using crontab in order to automatically run executables on bootup.

 

Bob C

com.bobc.tnfsd.plist

[FractalCZ]

It's just a relief being looking at my two computers 40 years apart chatting with each other

[sideburn]

If you want your server to launch and run in the background on login, make a .plist file in ~/library/LaunchAgents

 

edit: oops I see this has already been mentioned…

Edited January 2 by sideburn

[magnusfalkirk]

On the host list page for fujinet what do I need to name my MacBook pro that I have the tfns server configured on? Just changed my Internet provider and now the Fujinet plugged into my //c+ connects to the Internet. I have the path set using Terminal, and it is currently running, just need to know how to access it from the Apple //c+.

 

I've tried using the name of the MacBook, the path that the Apple II folder is in. Neither work, it tries to open it but says can't open the directory. Help Please! I'm running MacOS Big Sur on an Intel Mac.

Edited March 12 by magnusfalkirk

[mozzwald]

13 minutes ago, magnusfalkirk said:

On the host list page for fujinet what do I need to name my MacBook pro that I have the tfns server configured on? Just changed my Internet provider and now the Fujinet plugged into my //c+ connects to the Internet. I have the path set using Terminal, and it is currently running, just need to know how to access it from the Apple //c+.

 

I've tried using the name of the MacBook, the path that the Apple II folder is in. Neither work, it tries to open it but says can't open the directory. Help Please! I'm running MacOS Big Sur on an Intel Mac.

if your network doesn't support mDNS or it's not working, you can always put the IP address of your TNFS server instead of a name

[magnusfalkirk]

I'll give that a try, thanks

[magnusfalkirk]

Well crap. Tried your suggestion and it's still saying 'could not open directory'

[tschak909]

16 hours ago, magnusfalkirk said:

Well crap. Tried your suggestion and it's still saying 'could not open directory'

Is there a significant delay before it states that it can't open the directory?

It can possibly be a firewall on your Mac preventing connection to the tnfs server.

[magnusfalkirk]

no, there is no delay, it's immediate

[tschak909]

Can you paste output from the flasher's debug monitor, as the error happens?