On Monday 02 January 2006 22:29, Björn König wrote: > > Richard Kästner schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > hope to find some help, hints and experience here: > > > > an external device expects commands and command data, > > it produces result-codes and result data. > > Communication is done via HTTP (and working) > > > > The idea is, to allow access via Samba, which requires either > > implementation of Samba - VFS modules or mapping to BSD-Filesystem - > > pseudofs came to my mind. > > [...] > > Hello, > > your description is a little bit vague to me, but it sounds like that > this task can be probably done by using portalfs. See mount_portalfs(8) > for examples. > > Regards Björn Björn, (sorry for being vague - I seem to be too deep in my problems)
thanks for the tip - portalfs was the first thing to try, but it does not work with samba (at least the way, I wanted ): Portalfs does not allow to pass anything besides '/p/tcp/localhost/6666' To be less vague : the external device is a black box, communicates via ???-HTTP server. The idea is: - a (windows)user copies a file to a directory (say: .../commands/xyz), - there is a "thing", that maps this file to some activity towards external box (similar to: procfs_doprocnote ) - as a response, a file appears in another file (.../response/data), which can be read from (windows)client ( similar to: procfs_doproccmdline) - the whole stuff should work diskless - response data can be from a few bytes up to several megabyte - if I can manage, I could export this filesystem via samba _and_ nfs ... - if it all was only about acces to the black box, it could be done via HTTP ... unfortunately, I have to deal with windows clients Regards Richard -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Richard Kästner EDV-Beratung Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden Austria _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"