From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Simon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:46:09 +0000 Message-Id: <34985C61-FB8C-4EF9-BB1B-06D2D4CC7E39@quintile.net> References: <90864FBC-2F73-41EE-B47E-FCF123478CC3@quintile.net> In-Reply-To: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: ubiquitous environment? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d225be44-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i see. i would have thought/hoped that windows would remake the cifs session when w= indows comes out if standby, using cached credentials, so other than being a= bit slow to start, cifs to the plan9 server should come back. i guess i am missing something. -Steve On 3 Mar 2018, at 23:32, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: >> also, i would have thought you could build a windows drawterm which also >> included the code from exportfs so you could use 9fs and aan to get at th= e >> files on your windows box. >=20 > we don't use exportfs for this any more, but yes, i already use the > equivalent feature for this direction. > i want to also be able to use the windows file explorer to access the > 9front server through drawterm somehow (opposite direction), because > then the cifs mount doesn't get killed by window's inability to keep > the network connections running. 127.0.0.1 (drawterm) should always > stay up, and drawterm would take care of the rest :)