On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:39:52AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > That is a NetworkManager issue, completely specific to NetworkManager. > > And at this moment, that's not a problem that NM tries to solve. In > fact, this is explicitly outside of the scope of NM right now, since NM > is not meant to be used on servers yet. NM doesn't support multiple > active links yet either.
Very well. Personnaly, all of the computer I am working with (I am speaking about computers running kde, openoffice, firefox, etc, for desktop use) are also ssh servers and, sometimes vnc servers. Maybe httpd was the worst example, but it is sometimes useful to be able to connect to such a computer, don't you think ? I wouldn't however say that those computers qualify as ``servers''... If I understand correctly, if I put sshd on my laptop, I shouldn't use NetworkManager. Hmmm. Anyway, finally, what is the advantage of storing network preferences in home directories ? I have stated a couple of advantages of storing them in /var (computer more quickly available after login, possibility of running a server (this might not be a problem NM tries to solve, but it would come for free) and possibility of sharing a key). I fail to see any disadvantage. Please enlighten me ! > > Eventually, once we have some sort of system-wide configuration > framework, we'll pull data from there and support this sort of thing, > including (most likely) global wireless keys and such. But no such > thing exists. if this framework existed, would it replace or supplement the framework of storing in home directories ? (I would say replace, as I wouldn't see the point of storing any data in home directories. Putting everything in one place would be more robust and simpler, no ?) > In the GNOME world, that could be GConf (since you don't > need to be logged in to use GConf default & mandatory settings), or it I should say that it shouldn't be gconf, as NetworkManager itself should be desktop neutral: it makes sense that gnome-applet uses gconf, but not NetworkManager, no ? > could be something else. I wouldn't advocate the mess that > is /etc/sysconfig/ scripts right now, I couldn't agree more... Éric Brunet _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
