Re: [9fans] Plan 9 household shared file server

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 3/13/07, Richard Bilson <rcbilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Fastest way I could get this out in a pinch was to use a screenshot :-)
>
> Wild guess: aquarela must be run as "bootes" so that it can assume the
> identity of the user logging in. As I recall, it's not really prepared
> to deal with any other circumstance.

It's running as bootes if bootes starts it right?  That's what I'm doing :-)


>
> What Steve said regarding share names, plus: if you browse your
> machine, you'll find a single share named "local" by default. This
> will contain whatever is under /n/local. In the default installation
> there's nothing there, but you can put things under there or (better,
> I think) use /lib/namespace to bind things there.
>

I usually some directory to /n/local before I start aquarela, then it
runs happily until windows XP tries to map it, and then it suicides.

smbclient from Mac OS X can't seem to get the CHAP stuff right with it.

So so far, I can't use this for a file server :-)