Re: [9fans] Export local plumber to remote unix host?

[sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Jon Dugan <jdugan@x1024.net> wrote:
> What I'd like
> to be able to do is export at least my plumber over the ssh connection to the
> remote host so I can display the attachments locally.  This seems to be the
> opposite of what import(1) does.  I guess what I want is cpu(1) for
> plan9port...  or at least a limited version of it.
>
> Any suggestions?  (Unfortunately the Unix boxes and Word documents aren't
> going away any time soon for me...)

 You have two problems here:
1) Accessing plan 9's plumber from unix
2) Accessing unix files (attachments) from plan 9

 1 isn't too difficult, a listen1 with exportfs -r /mnt/plumb combined
with an ssh port forward (-L or -R, can't remember which applies here)
will give you access to the plumber via p9p's 9p (probably in
combination with srv -a for authentication).
 2 is a little more problematic. It's easy enough to run u9fs over ssh
(see srvssh), but the caveat is when you plumb an attachment like say
/home/jon/mail/foo.doc the plumber running on plan 9 is going to go
"/home? wtf is that?". As long as you can devise a convention to get
around that you should be good to go.

 Of course, seems like it might be a bit simpler to run acme Mail.
-sqweek