Re: [gnome-network]File sharing from Nautilus

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On 2003.08.28 12:12, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:01 +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote:

> >
> > 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
> >
> I was looking into the Zeroconf/rendezvous stuff, and found out Mandrake
> has support for that. Is that a free implementation?

I just brushed up a bit on zeroconf, I don't think zeroconf as a whole is  
very relevant for this. The interesting part is the service autoconfig -  
zeroconf uses SLPv2 for adhoc announcements of services and as I expected  
(above) it uses URLs. So we can pretty do what we want regarding transport  
methods and server locations :)
I couldn't find a (L)GPL implementation of SLP, best I could find was OpenSLP  
which has a bsd like license but i'm not sure it's OK

> > 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.
> >
> well, the daemon would serve as an entry point for users to a lot of
> system management tasks, not only hardware notifications.

I see, you mean on the gnome side. That could make sense.

> >
> right, syncing is a bad idea :-)

Also, it's rather hard to keep stuff coherent across the network.
This is a rather annoying problem, http and such is nice to share stuff RO  
but if you want to *really* share stuff you stumble into ugly cache/lock  
issues which nfs and the likes strugle against for the last oh 20 years :)
(remember windows smb, it blew dead bears regarding rw access and it drove  
users insane)

cheers

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