Can Drobo 5N2 support/help be found here?

[Alan Cameron]

I have a Drobo 5N2 happily running under Windows 10 and would like to use it from a new Ubuntu Desktop and a Ubuntu Server.

I need help to achieve this where can I find such help?

[Peter]

How is it set up?  Are you using the gigabit interface and have the drobo exporting a CIFS share?

I think you just connect both to the same network and then do something like

open the file manager click on other locations...

It might just show up in *windows network* 

or you might be able to type a url like:

smb://drobo5n2hostname//

But you may have it connected different... more info needed.

[Alan Cameron]

On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 23:38:23 UTC+1, Peter wrote:

How is it set up?  Are you using the gigabit interface and have the drobo exporting a CIFS share?

I think you just connect both to the same network and then do something like

open the file manager click on other locations...

It might just show up in *windows network* 

or you might be able to type a url like:

smb://drobo5n2hostname//

But you may have it connected different... more info needed.

Thanks for the reply.

I use the Drobo dashboard on one of my Win 10 PCs to control the Drobo, setting up shares and controlling  who has access to which share.

I run a small network of PCs and Laptops most run Win 10 through a gigabit LAN. I am now getting into a need to connect two virtual machines which run Ubuntu. One is a desktop and the other a server, both have access to the Drobo and have shares defined for them the main problem is me I have little or no knowledge of Linux and although the desktop works OK and I have access to the Drobo share using the Ubuntu GUI it is not the same as the Windows Dashboard.

I started searching for software that could give me an equivalent access and came across drobo-utils which appears to no longer supported. Which is why I asked the question hoping to learn from someone who knows more than me.

[Peter]

Short answer: nope. forget it.

longer answer:

OK, so you can share (using CIFS or whatever) but you want dashboard access.  Well the drobo dashboard for linux is ... drobo-utils.

So the drobo 5n is basically a drobo glued together with a droboshare.  way back when Drobo.com was developing it, they passed me an evaluation

unit, and I *ported* drobo-utils to the droboshare.  The droboshare is embedded linux on ARM. They were working on an App ecosystem at the time.   

The only thing my *port* did was install python, so the normal drobo-utils could run (it runs fine on ARM, all it needs is Linux.)

I´ve also used it with a raspberry pi, for giggles.

I see there was a Python *app* advertised... If there is still such a thing, then that is 90% of the work I did for the original port.

If you can install the Python app, then you can clone the repository on a share there, and you should be able to invoke it using the app. 

The other hoop that might have to be jumped is whether the apps run with admin access.

so there is path to investigate, but it may or may not work, and I expect that a beginning Linux user will have a really hard time.  So I don´t recommend it.