I hate floppies, and don't use any. But the students here have all their docs on floppies, and I have to find the best way to let them work with what they have. Another problem is that when they work on other computers over the university, they don't always have internet. Floopyd and MToolsFM work well, and I'll install it for my students. I was just wondering if I missed someting somewhere.
Thanks for the answer. Romain. > I don't know whether there's a solution to your problem or not. What I > do know is that accessing a local floppy with MToolsFM works fine in > my classroom. I even like the fact that the floppy has to be Dos > formatted. Those who still only have that Windoze stuff at home can at > least get at their documents. > > I wouldn't dream of ever letting my students work directly on files > that reside on a floppy. After all, they each have their private > corner in the /home directory. Don't they? IMO even a 10 Mbit network > works faster than a floppy. > > BTW I give my students access to a local floppy, but I advise them to > tar and gzip their documents, to attach the resulting archive to > an email message and to send that message to their private email > address. That way their documents are at their home long before > they themselves are! > > Wouter > > > On 17-Oct-02 Romain Surleau wrote: > > Well, as I had no answer, I suppose there is no other solution. If > > someone could at least answer "There is no solution to your > > problem", it > > would be clear for me, and I'd use floppy with MToolsFM, as it > > works > > quite well. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Romain Surleau. > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am looking for a way to offer floppy access to my students. > >> Floopyd works, but is not very user-friendly, even with MToolsFM : > >> users > >> can't work on a document on a floppy. > >> So I wanted to test nbd, but one thing I read in the doc doesn't > >> fit : > >> "each user is bound to each terminal". > >> Is there a way to avoid this ? > >> If no, is there another solution for a friendly floppy access ? > >> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
