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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: About remove nfs filesharing support
From:       Gary Greene <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2011-01-04 5:32:05
Message-ID: 089F04F2-4A2C-463D-9C19-F846A4E7EA48 () tolharadys ! net
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On 31 Dec 2010, at 4:26 AM, David Faure wrote:
On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:18:10PM -0200, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > Does that mean making KDE completely oblivious to NFS at all?
> > > 
> > > No, NFS is almost always system mounted.  I've never come across
> > > anyone actually using it for user mounts.  Far better to work on
> > > support for protocols that are designed for the job and standardied
> > > like SMB (designed for the job, Rodrigo already implemented), and
> > > Webdav (standardised, could be intergrated with OwnCloud).
> > 
> > I use it like that. NFS integrates much better than SMB with unix
> > filesystems, and auto-mounting is not always possible with a laptop that
> > can be moved between different local networks.
> 
> Note that the nfs://host ioslave will still be working (*), in addition to 
> system mounts. The only thing discussed here is the suid script (and related 
> GUI) that allows users to make nfs shares.
> 
> (*) so even if "almost always system mounted" is not so true, we still have a 
> client solution that doesn't require mounting. Which I like very much because 
> it doesn't make your machine hang when the server is shut down and you forgot 
> to umount the share... (But then again, sftp:// is easier to setup and more 
> secure).
> 
> Anyway, I don't know if user-controlled sharing should be kept or removed.
> It would be interesting to have Mandriva's feedback, since the feature was 
> coded by Mandriva developers, years ago.
> 

Actually, David, you were the one that did the work of helping shepherding that in (I \
remember as I was the one that got the original author and you talking to get it into \
KDE back around the 3.2(I think...) series....)

To be frank, I'd be loath to remove both the ability to create exports or connect to \
NFS from KDE, as it is a feature that is trivially easy to do on Mac, and Windows \
(with SFU installed). Please don't remove another system level thing as has been done \
before.

Best option here is to create a KAuth shim app to do the work for this.

> -- 
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).
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