RE: GMC Network

[Rowan van der Molen <bigsmoke usa net>]

At 15:01 30-12-98 -0800, you wrote:
>I have been talking with the author of Sharity, and he (i think) is going to
>help me implament that nfs libvfs idea.
>
>basically the idea is. 
>
>/net <--- you nave the nfs server mounted here.
>/net/<protocol> <--- the protocols the server support are listed here
>/net/smb/   <---under here are the workgroups detected
>/net/smb/workgroup1/  <----computers appear here....
>
Do you mean mapping a protocol to a directory? Sound cool

>if you want to open up ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/Linux you
>cd /net/ftp/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/Linux
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Daniel Solaz [SMTP:dsolaz@sistelcom.com]
>> Sent:	Tuesday, December 29, 1998 6:19 AM
>> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
>> Subject:	Re: GMC Network
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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