JackOfAll wrote: > OK, thanks guys. > > What I'm really trying to get at here, is whether anything really needs > to be more complicated than what I originally did, "/storage" being the > single mount point and either mounting a partition from a USB drive or > remote fs on it. It's going to get way too complicated, when considering > mounting something and then also having the gui take care of sharing the > mount via samba and nfs. (That was asked for before, and is being asked > for again, now.) This was already dealt with, by using the VortexBox > layout of having the single mount point, /storage, and having it shared > via nfs and samba out of the box. > > Pascal, do you always use one or the other. ie. a USB drive mounted with > your media on it, or a cifs share. Not use both together? > > What I'm thinking is continue with /storage being the media mount. If > you guys are doing things like rsync, you are using the cmd line anyway, > you are not using the gui and probably have the skills to create a new > directory and mount something to it. > > There needs to good a good out-of-the-box experience for the people who > just expect to plug and play, rather than having to use editors or know > about things like fstab. It almost does need to be dumbed down, I think, > so someone plugs a USB drive in, it is shown visually somehow by the > web-gui, and you are given an option of one or more partitions that you > could mount to /storage. (Or assuming, the drive doesn't have any > partitions, create one and mount it.) That's level one. > > Level two, for the slightly more technical, use a remote network share, > in which case it is expected that you know the share details, > credentials, etc. and can type them into the relevant fields. > > Level three, well, you're on your own there. It's called the cmd line.
When I was thinking about the lua gui, I was thinking that people would have one or two mounts and that we could probably have say 3 pre-defined mount points - say /storage1 /storage2 /storage3 and allow users to use these for local or remote mounts. I do think there is a case for simple samba server -as touch does, but only to export local disks which are mounted - so this would be a checkbox for export for a mount and then details for a sharing account and password for the share. I suspect nfs would be too niche....? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
