[9fans] Commercial system similar to 9p

[9fans] Commercial system similar to 9p

[Joel Salomon]

At the Linux World expo here in New York, I found a company called Beeweeb that provides an "Internet file server".  Apparently there is a program that runs on the server and presents a view of the file system via a proprietary protocol. A separate client (available on windows, linux  solaris) presents this as a mounted file system (on windows, a mapped network drive).

How much of factotum, etc. needs to be ported to a platform before a similar client could be written for 9p?

--Joel



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Re: [9fans] Commercial system similar to 9p

[David Presotto]

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It's actually the other way around.  What authentication protocol to they
use?  We'ld have to support it in our plan 9 factotum.

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Subject: [9fans] Commercial system similar to 9p
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:17:30 -0500 (EST)
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At the Linux World expo here in New York, I found a company called Beeweeb that provides an "Internet file server".  Apparently there is a program that runs on the server and presents a view of the file system via a proprietary protocol. A separate client (available on windows, linux  solaris) presents this as a mounted file system (on windows, a mapped network drive).

How much of factotum, etc. needs to be ported to a platform before a similar client could be written for 9p?

--Joel



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Re: [9fans] Commercial system similar to 9p

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> It's actually the other way around.  What authentication protocol to they
> use?  We'ld have to support it in our plan 9 factotum.

I think he is asking what a competing product, based on Plan9, would
need on the "client" side to authenticate itself to the
server -- assuming that the "Internet fileserver" is also the
authenticator. 

A port of factotum, or use the old protocol perhaps?

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