Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 2 Dec 2001, Ross Golder wrote:

> On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 09:14, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Examples:
> > 
> > * Instead of running your addressbook on your iPAQ displaying to your
> > desktop, wouldn't you rather have both your iPAQ and your desktop
> > both talk to a network server that manages your addressbook info and
> > arbitrates concurrent access?
> > 
> 
> Isn't that the arena of protocols like LDAP?
> 

No, LDAP very much a havy server protocol where you have one central (or
many replicated or ...) server which clkients access.

> > * Instead of running a load applet on your server and displaying to
> > your desktop, why not have a load monitoring system that separates
> > the monitoring part, which runs on the server, from the GUI, which
> > runs on any other machine and connects at any time (perhaps even from
> > multiple machines at once) with suitable authentication credentials?
> > 
> 
> Isn't this the arena of protocols like SNMP?
> 

Yes, you can do it with SNMP.

> 
> £0.02
> 
> --
> Ross
> 

	Sander

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