From kde-devel  Sat Jun 21 23:19:03 2003
From: Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:19:03 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Enhancing lan:/ and rlan:/
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On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:09, kded@jensbenecke.de wrote:
> That sounds cool. But - is it based on existing protocols or is it
> something completely new? What I want to enhance is the inoperability
> with other, existing, network protocols.

The protocol itself (SLP) is not new, it is described in RFC 2608. Only Apple 
is using it for file sharing right now, and with their own proprietary 
protocol for file transmission. The most common usage of SLP is annoncing 
printers. CUPS, for example, supports it.

I intend to use it to announce file shares that are handled by existing 
protocols like fish, sftp and webdav. In other words, if you want to find 
legacy systems it won't help you. All common systems for announcing shared 
folders are based on proprietary technology.

> Your SLP solution is probably a great clean new way of doing things, but
> does it help when you have two Linux machines in a network of 200
> Windows clients and servers, sharing files?

No, in a Windows network LISA is still your best option (and my goal is not to 
replace LISA, but to have an easy to use and scalable solution for free 
systems).

> I think it's not _that_ important. If people are allergic to being
> scanned, then they would kill any Windows user that browses the network.

Imagine someone installs a server that runs kde for admin purposes in a 
company network, and suddenly the admins see that this computer starts 
scanning the network... (there are network monitoring tools that would start 
an alarm in such a situation)

bye...

 
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