Re: [gnome-network]File sharing from Nautilus

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On 2003.08.28 11:20, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> >
> yeah. Running our own server makes things very tricky, since you can't
> have more than user running the server, due to using the same port (or,
> if you don't use the same port, then, it's a mess, since users need to
> know which port other users are using).

The sharing advertisements/query would certainly involve URLs so running  
stuff in odd ports shouldn't be a problem. What could be a problem is a)  
everybody running a http server (however this could be cleverly masqed by  
http-server-in-shlib) and b) http not being good at all for sharing files



> > The problem with having a system deamon is that:
> > a) it is a security risk. This could definiatly be done securly but it
> > is harder
> >
> yes, but in any case, there are plans to have such a daemon, not only
> for this, but for things like knowing when a network card has been
> started/stopped, etc

this are *totally* diferent things. a daemon to handle network filesystems is  
a totally diferent beast from an hardware notification manager. also, there  
already are hardware notification managers.


> if we use the daemon, we just have to send a message to it, to tell it
> 'share this folder for user x'. If no daemon, then I guess using
> symbolic links, or, if not possible, a synchronized copy (we could use
> fam on the server to detect when there are changes on the dirs being
> shared, and sync the copy when this happens) might work.

you mean, I need another 20G to share my mp3 collection with my wife ?


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