Sorry for being unclear. Sure I know the difference between UPnP and CIFS. I am just saying that approach (I incorrectly called it "use case") "single system-level daemon + multiple user-controlled user-specific resources" looks architecturally better than "multiple user-level daemons".
Sergey PS My Popcorn Hour can do both CIFS and UPnP, and I use CIFS :P On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ross Burton <r...@burtonini.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 14:29 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >> > Just because others do it in a particular way, doesn't make it >> > right. Although Rygel can be run as a system-wide service, the main >> > target use-case is that of providing services per-user[1] so for >> > example each user can choose to share his media on the network >> rather >> > than every user's media. >> That use case is perfectly served by samba - having ONE system-level >> daemon and multiple per-user shared directories (controlled by users) > > I wasn't aware that my Bravia TV or Roku SoundBridge could play from > CIFS shares, I thought they were DLNA players, but thanks for informing > me of this fact. > > Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Rygel is a DNLA media server, not a generic > file server, samba doesn't "perfectly" serve the role of media server. > > Ross > -- > Ross Burton mail: r...@burtonini.com > jabber: r...@burtonini.com > www: http://burtonini.com > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list