Re: File sharing with Nautilus

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Bill Garrett wrote:
> > Well, which web servers do you want to support? Only Apache?
> >
> > Okay... first off, you're talking root access required on everything...
>
> This is not necessarily the case for Web servers, but the alternative may not
> be any more pleasant.  

Either this. Or what's about the good old concept of running a proxy 
deamon granting this privileges? Hmm. Since we need a webserver for this 
kind of stuff anyway: Couldn't Webmin do the job for us?

> Obviously, this does not address SMB, NFS, and many other file-sharing
> mechanisms.  It also raises the question of "is it the business of Nautilus to
> be doing this?"

YES, in my opinion it is.

<chearleading>
Hey, Apple is able to do this job. The KDE folks are able to do it? 
Don't tell me that the Nautilus teams doesn't know how to do it.
</chearleading>

Ciao,
Mathias