____/ graeme on Wednesday 07 November 2007 02:14 : \____
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:29:11 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
> (snips)
>> So that's it, I give up on SAMBA. From now on my network shares are NFS,
>> and Windows can just sit there in isolation. I'll buy a USB keychain to
>> transfer files to the WinDummy boxen.
>
> Or setup a simple FTP or HTTP server. Open spec protocols those, in theory
> better interoperability with Windows. Granted security is an issue and
> the result isn't a filesystem to browse through.
I was going to suggest just /that/ to [H]omer before I read your message. The
standards of the Web to the rescue... use them before Microsoft destroys them
with REST, XAML (Silverlight) and other exclusion strategies.
Maybe SFTP instead of FTP?
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