* Pat Double <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-02-2003 03:11]:
> My question is that my users will want to put in a floppy on the terminal and 
> copy files to/from it, how do I do this (without having them using a V/C and 
> using scp or rcp)? Ideally I'd like to provide an icon on the desktop similar 
> to existing desktop icons for floppy and CD-ROM drives. I looked into nbd but 
> it only serves files, and NFS (I think) only exports directories, not 
> devices. I think I've seen this done before but I cannot remember how....

You might want to use NFS to export a directory, and have that directory
'auto-mount' when you click the icon to that directory (either via
script, or anything). That's just an idea though, haven't tested (don't
even have how to test it).

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