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#! rnews 2903 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newshub1.wanet.net!ucsnews!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs) Date: 11 Oct 1995 05:48:05 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 51 Message-ID: <45flql$dv4@hole.sdsu.edu> References: <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu> <44f0v9$83@park.uvsc.edu> <44hn74$pbj@hole.sdsu.edu> <454aet$oja@park.uvsc.edu> <457flc$2iq@hole.sdsu.edu> <45c82b$mki@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: > larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) wrote: > > I personally don't mind using Linux. I just think something > > like ksmbfs would be a worthwhile addition to FreeBSD. I am > > not concerned about who would develop the feature. > > I think something like ksmbfs is worthwhile only for single user > desktop machines, where a single client credential universally > applied to all FS services consumers on the platform is an > acceptable thing. > > For the most part, I think both Linux and FreeBSD do *not* fall > into this definition. I have found that Win95 and a lot of (most?) WinNT machines right now are still effectively single user desktop machines, and often other users on the Unix machine are not all that concerned about them, at least not enough to want to intentionally breach their security (or lack of), or even to create/modify/delete files, and that there are benefits to that single user if the filesystem services from the WinXX machine are remotely accessible via the Unix filesystem, even if the filesystem services were only available to that user. I agree that for the most part Linux and FreeBSD do not fall into the category of single user desktop machines where a single client credential universally applied to all FS services consumed on the platform is an acceptible thing, but I think Win95 and WinNT often do, and that in those cases ksmbfs can be nice when the user wants to access the files on the WinXX machine from a Unix machine. > Attempting to set this up as a "selling point" for Linux vs. BSD Who attempted to set this up as a "selling point" for Linux vs. BSD? I said it is a nice feature that Linux has that I think would be a worthwhile addition to in BSD. I did not say it SHOULD be in BSD BECAUSE it is in Linux, or that Linux is better than BSD because of this feature. > is not, however, welcome. Not welcome where? In the freebsd.misc newsgroup? Who determines the absolute welcomeness of an article? Should I submit my articles for the welcomeness seal of approval before posting? > Take it to the advocacy groups, please. Which FreeBSD advocacy group is there to take it to? :) Larry