On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:45, Alan Horn wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Then how does one access the file system? If it's just like FTP then > > It's not gonna be v useful. > > it's a browser, just like a windows point and click interface, except you > put and get using command line. It still access the filesystem using > ls/dir etc... Can it be mounted ? > > Right now, I'm on a Linux Box connecting to another LInux Samba File > > server > > > > So you have a linux filesystem that is accessed by samba and then using > samba is sent to the rest of the world ? Remember that SMB is a windows > evolved protocol, and was never intended for linux to linux communication > (altho I'm sure it'll work for that). Yeah.. I know about that.. > hmm.. is TCP NFS (as opposed to udp) any better for you ? I'm not sure. I've not really tried that yet. There was a few suggestions but I've not put anything on paper yet. Fairly Busy ATM. :-) But I will have to say that NFS UDP sucks. > What is the aggregate bandwidth between the two boxes ? If this is over > the internet _any_ solution you pick is likely to get shitty performance. > :) What they tell me is that There's a 1Mbit link to the office in Asia. And yeah.. It's over the internet..(over VPN is my guess) :-) But... If I were to do a wget from the server I get like up to 100K/s > > I still think webdav is a reasonable solution. I suggest investigating it > and then getting back to me :) Ok.. if you say so.. Will investigate more later.. Thanks
