Roy Stogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You know, I was going to write this project off as being too simple,
until I got your e-mail. Right now I am not entirely sure anymore. It
seems like everyone says it should be not-too-hard, but no-one has
tried actually implementing it.
> I've been working on the same thing for a while. You can find my
> current (working, but too buggy to be useful yet) perl code at
I will have a look at it soon, thanks!
> Exactly. I've thought of some hacks to do this, but they all involve
> either writing a new autofs module, writing a new vfs driver, or doing
> hideous loopback mounts of small ext2 image files.
Are you backing away from this because it is bad design, or a lot of
work? Do you have an idea how much work it would be? I have not
really looked at the implementation of this stuff before so I have a
hard time giving an estimate.
I am willing to spend quite some time on it, provided I can get it
accepted as a student project. The problem is that I cannot do that if
it is too simple - or too hard for that matter :).
> What I envisioned: First level: /smb contains a list of symlinks,
> one for each server, to /.autosmb, which is automounted, with a
Yes, this sounds like what I was thinking. I have not given the
implementation details too much thought yet, though.
> > > it with amd (I understand that amd is a bit more powerful, at the
> > > cost of being vastly more complex)?
>
> Is amd still supported? I thought it was being phased out.
I do not really know, I thought it was still being patched upon. I had
a hard fight with amd and finally found out about autofs and had it up
immediately. But I would be willing to take the fight with amd if it
meant I would get the browsing capabilities "easily".
> Plus the whole "smbmount" thing is shaky at best. I advise giving up
> on the smbfs specific support in autofs, and simply making sure your
> system is configured so that "mount -t smb" and "mount -t smbfs" work
> as expected.
I cannot really figure out how smbmount, smbclient, and smbfs are
related. Do they use the same code to get a file over the network, or
are they seperate entities?
Incidentally, Sharity ( http://www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html )
can do this browsing thing but unfortunately it is a commercial
product - and actually a quite expensive one at that.
--
Regards, Anders
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