Re: NFS method

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>
> Subject: Re: NFS method
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:21:52AM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > I've been for a couple of days working on a NFS method for gnome-vfs
> > (gnome-network/vfs) and just found out there's a disabled NFS module in
> > gnome-vfs sources.
>
> But wait ... there's more!
>
> There is also some NFS functionality in the 'file' module in gnome-vfs
> (it does NFS and AFS detection for various reasons). Personally, I'd
> prefer to see something like this go in gnome-vfs, rather than
> gnome-network; it's a filesystem, more than a network thing, since the
> user does not really care that the files are accessed over a network.

Yes, but usesr probably want to browse the network for nfs shares too...
That, and normally a user can't mount an NFS share (it has to be moun-
ted by root), so it may be nice to also be able to browse nfs shares in
a second way.

Kind regards,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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