[KLUG Members] Re: Nautilus in RH 7.3 and Samba shares...revisited... -- NIS/LDAP Automounter MAPs, WebNFS ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>:
> I agree 99%, but NFS is just a pain for adhoc connections,  one needs
> to establish a mount/connection for everything one wants to use.  Which is
> just irritating.  I'm curious if there is anything akin to SMB for
> browseing/ad-hoc file management for UNIX, other than SMB.

Remember the UNIX mindset:
- Filesystems need to be mounted, and only root can mount
- Network resources should _always_ be listed in a  directory service.

*BUT*, with that said, you _can_ use the "automouter" _and_ automouter maps
distributed via NIS or, better yet, LDAP directories!  IMHO, on a corporate
network, only system administrators should be setting up NFS shares anyway.

Furthermore, Sun _did_ create a "browser client model" for what it called
"WebNFS" to connect to an NFS service on port 2049 (no server modification
required, assuming the share is "world-readable").  Several applications _can_
now browse NFS shares without mounting.  I know there are now several "NFS
browsers."  Try "nfs://" in your browser.

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