[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps?

[Tom Weissmann]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Tom Weissmann wrote:
>> nautilus - "less nasty" than having the remote share automounted so that 
>>   *any* app can access its contents transparently?
> 
> It's all fun and games until you need root to mount a remote share.
> That's not practical everywhere.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't have to be necessary. Automounting CDs works 
without the user needing to be root, so why shouldn't automounting samba 
shares?

IMO a remote file system that requires you to make local copies of files 
in order to edit is not a remote file system worth having. You might as 
well use flickr to store your photos.

Similarly, cool userspace file protocols like KIO are severely limited 
because only some applications can actually use the "file systems" they 
create. Seems like a great way to break the *nix philosophy that 
everything is a file - "everything is a file, sometimes".

Regards,
Tom SW



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