My self and a number of G1G1 users, currently use boa for transferring files. It is a light weight web server. I see no need for SMB/CIFS . Now WebDAV sounds interesting.
Now to clean up the copy to Journal and copy from Journal scripts.... On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I'm debating with myself whether to send this, because I don't want >> to make people mad, with the result of closed minds, but sometimes >> you have to be politically incorrect: > > I think this will be resolved by whomever implements this, with no > need for flamefests :-) > > In that sense, it is very simple - as a programmer, if I am going to > spend significant time working on a feature like this I want it to > > 1 - work for the deployments - this is the most important thing! > 2 - work for G1G1 users too - they are the donors and enthusiasts! > 3 - work for the developers - otherwise it won't get attention and > bugfixes > 4 - work in as many places as possible > 5 - not cause security trouble > 6 - enable sharing across the internet if possible > > CIFS is only good on #2, and fails at all the other ones. It is a good > solution for a very narrow set of scenarios. > > These are some of the key concerns in front of a dev planning to > implement some form of server-based filesharing. That's why I am > suggesting WebDAV - which is superior to this, and trivial to > configure on many platforms. > > Code will settle this. Anyone trying to do a CIFS implementation will > soon realise that it just does not fit the usage scenario (not meant > for WiFi, userland usage, etc) and WebDAV does. > > cheers, > > > > m > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel