Re: GMC Network

[Pedro Corte-Real <lreal riff fe up pt>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Daniel Solaz wrote:

> Harald Holzer wrote:
> >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.)
> Yeah. You only have to know which protocol you need to talk to which
> particular server, as shown in the examples below. Not what sysadmins
> want. Remember there are guys out there who have to spend long hours
> telling unix-ignorant people how to do things. Now imagine things are
> done in ten different ways.
> >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)
> Nope. Mount it and access it as if it were a local directory. Uniform
> access is the key. And nothing needs to be added to gmc.
> -Daniel


How about another solution. Things would work by mounting and with unified
acess but gmc would take the initiative and mount a filesystem and when it
was done unmount it again. This should only take minimal changes to gmc. 


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