Re: Poor Man's XT doc (pre-releace)
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 03:29:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> >>The X protocol does Audio. For floppy disks you need to have some sort of
> >>setup for mounting them. Maybe NBD would help for this...
> >
> >NBD?
>
> Network Block Device. It's a new feature in 2.1 kernels that allows you to
> mount a block device from another machine over a network (you need the nbd
> daemon for the server machine though - IE the machine with the floppy drive).
yes yes yes yes yes!
This sounds exactly like what I was wishing for :)
now I just need NCD (hmm ok that name is taken I guess) to use charicter
devices over the network
tho I supose NAS is good enough (reading its docs now)
> NBD will not solve the authentication problems by itself. Anyway the kernels
> I've been giving you have NBD compiled in. Have a play with it.
>
> >IMHO, use of diskettes is going to make things awkward for and X-Terminal,
> >because access needs to be authenticated... Maybe this is where NDB
> >fits it (what is NBD), however I tend to avoid using floppy disks
> >whenever possible (they always seen to be too unreliable).
>
> True.
hmmm...well in another post I mentioned how I would do the nfs system...
but still anyone on the same host as the person using the xterminal could
mount the floppy...
> I deleted it from my system yesterday. It hasn't come back...
hmm I bet I have one somewhere
-STeve
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