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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!acs2.bu.edu!mi From: mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs) Date: 11 Oct 1995 00:21:12 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 29 Message-ID: <45f2lo$3jh@news.bu.edu> References: <44cma4$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$ap@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acs2.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (2 Oct 1995 20:00:19 GMT) honorable Terry Lambert, residing at terry@cs.weber.edu wrote: |mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: |] It is probably my English. I'm very well aware of smbclient... It is |] exactly what we _BOTH_ mean by `ftp-like clinet/app'. I said using it |] annoys, and asked if there is a hope to `mount -t samba' in the near |] future. |A "mount" is a single connection. |How do you propose to allow user level security with a "mount", |since the only way the file server will support that is one |connection per user? |If you propose to use a single connection per machine, how do you |propose to allow multiple users on a single machine? Like M$ DOS partitions... Also, how about giving an OPTION to sacrifice security for connectivity? |If you want to write an SMBFS with the inherent limitations of |a restricted model, feel free. It would have less utility than |an smbclient broken out into several command line utilties along |the line of mtools. Sorry, I am not that big yet (-: -- hot-dog apple-pie baseball Chevrolet