Anyone using PP and assessing files on a NAS
Is there a simple way to make this work or do I need to crawl under the hood using the instructions from smgvbest.
Thanks
Derek
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An alternative could be to install SAMBA on your pathpilot box (if allowed) and give users permissions to access their home folder
Then you can save files directly from you post processor to the nc_files folder when the gcode is created.
But of course Microsoft makes it hard. There is a SMB policy that has to be enabled on Windows to access SAMBA
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That's my line of thinking at this point. Not sure how PP handles user names. I have three machines running PP and if they are all "operator" with different ip addresses is that the next 5 hour hill to climb:)If PathPilot has a user account, you might be able to create an account for the user on your NAS which gives access to a home folder. Well how it works on my Synology.
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I tried to run su root to give the operator user root privileges but it's password protected.
I am doing this on a test machine FYI since I obviously don't know what the hell I'm doing
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CTRL+SHIFT+F2
Try login in with known user names.
Also, can you ALT+TAB while PP is on to switch to other stuff or desktop?
What does pressing the Windows key do?
Also try CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, on older Linux that would force a menu.
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That's a whole lotta nope Tried all of them but didn't get any kind of result.Since we are experimenting, try starting PP then
I do want to clarify when I said about Pathpilot starting. If you intervene before a machine fully loads and the GUI appears the share mounts and everything works. You can go to operator/gcode/share and it is mounted. My test box has no controller so when the choose machine splash shows up I hit exit and hold down the shift+alt key and boot to the desktop. On my actual running machine if I unplug the controller and start the computer you get a "can't find controller" screen. If you hit exit and hold down shift+alt forcing it to the desktop the share mounts properly and is fully accessible.
So somewhere downstream Pathpilot is restricting the file system and not just at the GUI since if exit Pathpilot and force it to the desktop the restriction is still in place. The folder shows to be mounted but the user "operator" no longer has privileges.
I'm sure they have a good reason for restricting network access in the file menu but man o man it sure makes no sense to me.
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See if you can find something about mounting shares at run level 4 or 5.
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Stay tuned to this channel:)
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So at some point PP decided to allow the mounted share to become available. Nice.
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