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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:52:50 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 4-Oct-95 Re: Linux
Killer App (ksmbfs) Larry Riedel@saturn.sdsu (826)
> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
> >
> > We understand the problem.
> >
> > SMBFS is not the answer.
> >
> > If you want to write an SMBFS with the inherent limitations of
> > a restricted model, feel free. It would have less utility than
> > an smbclient broken out into several command line utilties along
> > the line of mtools.
> I don't know if SMBFS is or is not "the answer" to any "problem,"
> but there are some things I can do more productively when remote
> files appear to be part of my local filesystem, even if there are
> some significant caveats and restrictions.
> > Personally, I'd rather solve the problem
> > than kludge around it; a planned kludge is not worthy of my efforts.
> If there were a kludge that I could predictably use more
> productively than the alternatives, I'd take the kludge.
Personally I'd be very happy with a kludge for a one user login --
handle it like the msdos mounting as it is now.. I use samba to serve
my windows / windows 95 system / users happily (they mount their home
directories, and use MS Exchange to read their mail via pop), but it
would be nice to be able to mount a web subtree from someone's personal
system via Sambafs (or such.) Or to mount a CDRom over, or such.
Certainly it lacks the security of usder handling, and so on, but the
servers I'm picking it up off of don't have that, anyway :)
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org