Random discussion topic. How do you browse a network in Linux? By that I mean something analogous to a Windows domain. I'm wondering about the whole package: browsing to find the shared resource, authenticating, and transferring. I got to thinking about this last week when I got tired of always using "Connect to computer" on my PowerBook to mount the AFP share on my Gentoo box. So I installed Avahi (a Rendezvous "server", I guess you'd call it), and now my SSH and AFP services are broadcast on my network so I can access them by name and the Gentoo box just magically appears in the Networks folder on the Mac. Nifty. Then last night I was messing around with Ubuntu 7.04 in a VM, and found that it had magically picked up the SSH shares on both the Gentoo and Mac machines (again using Avahi, I believe). When I clicked on one, I could log in and it mounted the remote filesystem using SFTP. Nifty again, but it got me to thinking. Rendezvous is the Apple way, and Samba is the Microsoft way, but what is the Linux way? Put another way, before anyone invented Rendezvous and Samba, how did people browse a Linux only (or Unix only, if we have to go back that far) network? Where does the single sign-on come from, if that's possible, à la Windows domain, where I wouldn't be asked for a username/password to mount the remote filesystem? And what protocol is used? NFS? *cringe* I've never gotten along with NFS.
Like I said, random discussion topic, just creating conversation. How's everyone's Tuesday? :-) Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
