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Re: ftp mounting??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cs96sjd@brunel.ac.uk)
Mon Nov 23 08:26:50 1998
From: cs96sjd@brunel.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <365754C4.529BE8AD@eburg.com> from Gordon Messmer at "Nov 21, 98 04:03:16 pm"
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:25:37 +0000 (GMT)
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Gordon Messmer said something like :
> James Michael Keller wrote:
> [snip]
> > What I want to know is there a way to map an ftp connection so it shows
> > up as local file system?
> >
> > Basicaly have it set so instead of having to use an ftp client, I can
> > have whatever program consult a config file, make the ftp connection,
> > and mount the remote file system to /mnt so normal file commands can
> > work. Something like SAMBA for netbios connections.
> >
>
> My first question is: why not use samba? You can mount samba shares
> from Windows machines, or other machines running SAMBA.
I've had problems transfering large (20meg + ) files over samba, there seems to be overflow problems with buffers or something. This seems to happen with a few samba implementations including DEC Pathworks. Anyone else had this ?
> If you want to use FTP as a local filesystem, KFM from KDE isn't too
> bad. (As I see it, the one useful program in KDE) It doesn't mount
> the remote dir in the filesystem, but file operations are exactly the
> same as local filesystems.
>
You could use autofs (similar I believe to amd), to mount the ftp sites you specify (assuming they support NFS), and they'll appear seamless to your existing filesystem (in and out of KDE!!).
Simon D
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