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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!werple.net.au!gfm From: gfm@werple.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD philosophy (was Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)) Date: 6 Oct 1995 02:31:26 GMT Organization: werple public-access Internet, Melbourne Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4524du$7kq@eplet.mira.net.au> References: <44cma4$fv4@hole.sdsu.edu> <44g8jj$51q@keltia.freenix.fr> <44h6qi$kbf@news.bu.edu> <44ha9d$9h0@mark.ucdavis.edu> <44nt2q$lnf@news.bu.edu> <44pgcj$ap@park.uvsc.edu> <MkQTQ2_00YUpQMKnpe@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.mira.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Robert N Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 4-Oct-95 Re: Linux : Killer App (ksmbfs) Larry Riedel@saturn.sdsu (826) : > Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: : > > If you want to write an SMBFS with the inherent limitations of : > > a restricted model, feel free. It would have less utility than : > > Personally, I'd rather solve the problem : > > than kludge around it; a planned kludge is not worthy of my efforts. : > If there were a kludge that I could predictably use more : > productively than the alternatives, I'd take the kludge. : Personally I'd be very happy with a kludge for a one user login -- : handle it like the msdos mounting as it is now.. I use samba to serve This is as much a philosophical question as anything. Is FreeBSD a single user/desktop or a multi-user/server OS? Its hardware roots are the former but its software comes from the latter. Linux is definitely oriented more towards the former. For many people who run FreeBSD on a home computer, even the Unix login is probably unnecessary. On the other hand, FreeBSD is being used in a multi-user environment in commercial organisations. There should probably be some way of setting up a machine in "home" mode or "work" mode. In "home" mode, Terry's objections to SMBFS become superfluous. On the other hand, you can't just throw away all security as people still connect their home computers to the net. You do want to have restrictions on people mounting drives from all around the world but this is more of a firewall issue than a login one. Graham