From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Jakob Praher Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:17:45 +0000 Message-ID: References: <7B8C87F2-DB31-4B60-A7E8-E7B51F42B888%jp@hapra.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Xnntp/beta06 (UNIBIN Mac OS 10.4.11+) Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication fromheterogenous systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8668703c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, Eric Van Hensbergen schrieb: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: >>> > If you are on Linux you can use v9fs directly. > For servers there are lots of choices, but spfs/npfs are the only ones > (I know of) which support the UNIX extensions (for things like UID > mapping, etc.) > There is a comprehensive list: http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations > I am currently on MacOS X and Linux. I thought that npfs is a successor of v9fs? I have now also installed u9fs which is part of the Plan 9 iso. This seams to be a complete Unix file system exporting solution for accesing remote file systems from Plan 9. My question is if I use the Plan9 in user space port on the client side it would be theoretically possible to use the u9fs from non native Plan9 machines too?. What are the main problems I am running into if I do it this way? > > This all depends on what you are trying to do, are you going > Linux<->Linux, Linux<->Plan9, something else? Authentication isn't > currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). It > is possible to setup an authenticated connection from UNIX to Plan 9 > using p9p. As I said above if I have a native Linux file server and a Linux/Unix client that is able to make use of the plan9port distribution, does that enable authenticated connections for me? thanks Jakob > > -eric > > >