On 10 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep. Also, I was playing with the idea of rsync with Service Location Protocol > to use as a replacement for the crappy practice of sharing data over floppy > disks. The rough concept was that each machine had a shared directory, which > you could conveiently label and advertise over SLP.
That could be a pretty nice thing. We use little rsync shares on workstations here for sharing files, and I know some people do the same with FTP. What aside from SLP would make this more useful? > Go superlifter! For what it is worth, the things I identified during the > abortive kioslave / SLPv2 share development: > 1. More secure than FTP. > 2. Easy to label shares/directories and provide fine grained access control, > if desired. > 3. Client side library that doesn't require hellish text parsing, or at least > hides it from you. > 4. Well delimited packets, so you can tell when one has been > dropped. Can you give more detail on those? What do you mean by packets being dropped? How can that happen on a TCP channel? -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html