2008/12/31 Anna <ascho...@gmail.com>:
> 2008/12/31 David Leeming <leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb>
>> I want to do a new install but can you let me know if I can install Samba
>> and how to set up access to a shared folder on a Windows PC on the LAN as I
>> have a large content collection and it takes ages to copy it all again by
>> flash drive. Or maybe there is a better way to do it.
>
> I was curious about that, too, so I looked into other alternatives as Samba
> can sometimes be a pain to configure. It's also yet another service to run
> on the XS.
>
> I found an sshfs utility for Windows called Dokan. And it's free for
> non-commercial purposes! This might make more sense than fooling with
> Samba, especially if you only have one Windows machine to deal with.
Good tip about sshfs - I didn't know there was a workable Windows
implementation. Another route could be the Fuse-for-windows
implementation I frequently hear about.
But we have another path we an follow :-)
There are some patches for Moodle 1.9, written by me (and included in
2.0) that add support for WebDAV.
So this is a separate thread on this matter ("easy file sharing for
XS"?). So far
- Samba
- fastest, most mature
- hard to configure clients (authentication issues, etc)
- assumes reliable connectivity - clients lock up briefly if
connection vanishes
- does not integrate well with moodle
- not NAT-friendly
- ssshfs
- slow
- well supprted on linux, Dokan (?) for Win
- authentication issues
- does not integrate well with moodle
- NAT friendly
- WebDAV
- a bit slow
- well integrated with Moodle (including authentication)
- we still have to do some minor auth work as we don't use
username/pass scheme which WebDAV implementations assume
- NAT friendly
- patches for moodle already exist, well tested and written by... me!
cheers,
m
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