"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftp onfreedesktop.org?

Brent Cook busterbcook at yahoo.com
Tue May 25 13:05:09 PDT 2004


On Tue, 25 May 2004, Roland Mainz wrote:

> Sean Middleditch wrote:
>>> ? So far this isn't more dangerous that WebDAV. And WebDAV isn't an
>>> option since non-Linux OSes can't handle it (and WebDAV isn't "secure"
>>> either).
>>
>> Nonsense.  OS X and Windows both make use of WebDAV, KDE and GNOME both
>> offer user-space VFS access to WebDAV, and other OSes have either their
>> own user-space drivers for WebDAV or third-party utilities to access it.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong - you are talking about toolkit-specific
> filesystem emulations, right ? I doubt the shell can access those
> filesystems...

If you need to see WebDAV from the shell, perhaps something like this 
would help?

http://dav.sourceforge.net/

  - Brent




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