[plug] KDE / DCOP vs SMBFS home path.....? (long post, adv. topic)

[Ben New]

Craig,

Thanks for the replies and link. According to the page, "Using this 
patch I can start X with my home directory mounted off another machine." 
That sounds like exactly what I want :-)

The whole thing sounds like a load of bollocks to me. I agree with your 
idea of a global config path, but it would still need to be able to be 
shared over the network, so users can login to any machine. Maybe apps 
that need to store special files could just use the /tmp path or 
something. I mean, these are temporary files right?

And yeah NFS is a monstrosity! I wasn't even game to go there, besides, 
we need Windows machines to see the shares as well.

Anyway thanks, and I'll post again if I get the thing running.

Ben




Craig Ringer wrote:

>> This will break anything that needs to create a UNIX socket, named 
>> pipe, etc, as these must exist as "special" files on the filesystem, 
>> and SMBfs doensn't understand about them.
>
>
> More info, my memory having kicked back in:
>
> Actually, I think that Samba 3.0 (if not earlier versions) can support 
> an 'extended' CIFS with POSIX permissions, and maybe also sockets etc. 
> This might be of some interest:
>
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/
>
> I think you have to use CIFS not SMBfs, so it's kernel patch time, but 
> I seem to remember playing around with it with decent results. Mostly 
> in the vein of "please, anything but that ugly NFS monstrosity!"
>
> Craig Ringer
>
>

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