RE: [borsenkow.msk@sni.de: RE: VFS: samba]

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

> I had an idea that I have been kicking around and trying to implament (I
> dont know c verry well so... ) Using an NFS server mounted under /net or
> where ever to do ftp, smb, ncp, whatever without needing special tools.
> All that it needs is the nfs server installed by root. The added advantage
> is that all programs will work with it, not just programs made with libvfs
> and works on all operating systems. I think we need to get somekind of
> project going.
> 
> I think the best way to it would be somthing like this
> 
> filesystem:
> /net <--- have an special nfs server mounted here
> /net/<protocol>/ <------ have directorys for the different protocols the
> nfs server supports
> /net/smb/<computername>/ <---- in the protocol, if it supports browsing
> list computeres here
> /net/ftp/ftp.cdrom.com/ <--- if some one changes into a directory in an
> ftp protocol, it tryes to 
>                                         use it there.
> 
> The end result is that if you want to go into ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub
> you could just 
> cd /net/ftp/ftp.cdrom.com/pub
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Miguel de Icaza [SMTP:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 29, 1998 10:50 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	[borsenkow.msk@sni.de: RE: VFS: samba]
> 
> 
> For those interested in the VFS, this is currently being discussed as
> well on the mc-devel mailing list.
> 
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@sni.de>
> To: "Timur I. Bakeyev" <timur@comtat.ru>, <mc-devel@nuclecu.unam.mx>,
>         "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
> Cc: <j-grigera@usa.net>
> Subject: RE: VFS: samba
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:17:19 +0300
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> >
> >     2a. As, SAMBA 2.0 is coming, we can communicate with SAMBA
> > team to separate
> >     all smbclient functions into lib, and left smbclient as
> > simple frontend to
> >     the library. And also happily use this library in the MC :)
> >
> 
> Yep. As mentioned in another mail, please, take a look at smbwrapper. It
> already has VFS layer built in and redefines standard system calls such
> like
> open, read, readdir etc. It should be possible to convert it to full
> fledged
> client library. I hope :-)
> 
> If anybody is interested - drop a note to mailto:samba-techical@samba.org
> 
> And, having smbwrapper makes buitin SMB VFS in Midnight redundant :-)
> 
> 
> >     tivity will be the pain. But, still, I think smbclient much
> > more preferable va-
> >     riant of adding ne FS to MC. (for ex., HTTPFS, another
> > candidate for adding,
> >     also require extra 200-400Kb for libs, and so on... :)
> >
> 
> What is needed, is loadable module support. Then, adding new file system
> will be a matter of dropping binary in standard place.
> 
> 
> /andrej
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