A minimal ftp server providing anonymous access on $DOMAIN seems feasible especially if one wants a gui to operate on files without the hassle of client joining a domain, user/group permissions etc. (as in with samba?)
OR Nothing would beat rsync/cwRsync on (maybe cygwin) if it were just about data synchronization. Rahul J On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | On Fri, May 30, 2008 10:09 am, Andy Green wrote: > | > |> ~ But not mass storage: this operates in block mode and requires > complete > |> ownership of the storage by the host then (since if we have it mounted > |> too, we will write conflicting things to directory structures, etc). > | > | Could we emulate a block device, so that Windows thinks it has sole > | ownership of a USB block device with a FAT32 FS on it, but for every > block > | access call it makes we intercept the call, figure out what file windows > | is trying to read or write to, make the corresponding change to our local > | files (on and ext3 volume), and return emulated results back to windows. > | > | I dare say windows would get confused if I file it had cached got changed > | by Linux, but the user could probably put up with that. > > This was proposed before, but it sounds horrible to me. Linux knows > already how to deal with sharing a mounted filesystem over the network, > better to go on leveraging stuff at that layer. > > I don't much like Samba either but we could run a stripped down copy of > that or lighttpd on our end of the Ethernet-over-USB connection and > provide a solid filesystem access solution without any special projects. > ~ We already have perl and sshd so KDE's fish:// works fine, just not > everybody runs KDE :-) > > http://linuxreviews.org/kde/kde-user-persp/fish.html > > - -Andy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkg/85IACgkQOjLpvpq7dMoF2gCfQmspYRQxcWN+Bxkjyx6/0j2R > gzIAn2Ni8YHcD244LtY3h6OjNAMyCZNu > =y7kH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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