On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:51:09PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Martin Keegan martin@no.ucant.org wrote:
This action is an attempt to hurt Samba. Samba is critical to the wider acceptance of free software.
It need not be, although it currently is. Samba is just an implementation of someone else's interfaces, which is not normally a good way to succeed. You're always going to be behind and they have the upper hand. Why help them to continue their misrule?
What we need is a reliable read-write user-driven mount over an encrypted connection. For Linux, AVFS looks like the best potential solution at present, so if you want to help there, find how to fix their ssh module (or document it better so that I can figure it out) so as to talk to my ssh-agent (probably echoing the details into a ssh_ctl or similar), if it's possible. For now, I have AVFS doing ftp mounts and the like.
I expect this sort of thing is simple for hurd ;-)
From what I know of AVFS, it's just one big joke. You can do that already with the Hurd and in way which is much better IMHO. I expect to see such things you are describing being implemented up when the Hurd matures a bit. Our primary focus is stability at the moment.
Jeroen Dekkers