Re: GMC Network

["Harald Holzer" <harald holzer eunet at>]

I think the best feature of the win32 fs is the use from the unc name
system.
You can open or save a file from the server without mapping a drive letter
(like mounting in unix.)

If we can provide a same system to gnome or linux kernel this would be a
great step. We could use the url like sytle for identifying the protocol,
server and directory.

I dont kown what exactly the vfs in the mc is, but here a idea how i want to
use networkfs.
(i am work a long time on windows, and only a few month at linux.)

A sample:
if you want to open a file in or word processor, you write a file name like
smb://server/work/myfile.doc in the opendialogbox
(or http://server/work/myfile.doc or save or work on
ftp://server/work/myfile.doc)

This implemenation of open, save files, and list directorys is a straight a
way. Opening a file in a browser like netscape from the local mounted system
or getting the file from a http, ftp,smb or nfsserver make no difference.
The browser uses always the os implemented function to open a file or browse
a directory.

Is there a user logon required there should be a seperate logon procedure,
and logoff procedure avaible.

This way should only alternative way to specify and working with network
filesystems. The mapping a drive or mounting a filesystem should be only a
shortcut for users to easy access and find there documents.

Harald Holzer

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon S. Allbery <allbery@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: GMC Network


>In message <6FFC44A65DE7D111B05400600890447C04BD40@ex01.bhi-erc.com>, "Fox,
Kev
>in M" writes:
>+-----
>| I am sorry if the "must" offends you but to be an enterprise wide
operating
>| system unfortunatly it is a requirement. :(
>+--->8
>
>Large companies do not use Network Neighborhood, because it requires that
>Windows boxes spew all over the network on a short schedule.  Small
companies
>use it because they don't know better or they have so little network usage
>that a bunch of Windows boxes spamming the network every 30 seconds isn't
>noticed.
>
>If *you* (not enterprises!  reread the above sentence) want it so badly,
write
>it and contribute it back.  Don't bother trying to pressure anyone on the
>list.  (And indeed, you're not "suggesting", you're trying to pressure the
>list.)

 Yes, the browsing and Network Neighborhood produces unessesery network
traffic.
But this is the way of a bad implementation of finding servers and the realy
bad explorer interface.

>
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>carnegie mellon university       ["God, root, what is difference?" -Pitr]
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