Re: gnome-user-share

["Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

On Lun 18 juillet 2005 02:46, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I've started a new thread because this discussion was going to get lost
> in the 200+ message thread-o-doom.
>
> So so far we have the introduction of gnome-user-share, which uses an
> http process dynamically bound to a port running as the user to share
> stuff in a ~/Public file to the world w/out auth. It sounds like
> gnome-user-auth will go into core.  The restrictions have been put
> forth:
>
> * Functionality is provided by a package and removed by a package, w/out
> core deps.
>
> * Functionality is controlled by a gconf entry which an admin can set to
> mandatory off (or just remove the package)
>
>
> Some ideas that have floated for this package include:
>
> * Functionality disabled until a file is placed in ~/Public prompting
> for a dialog box informing the user that the share is now active, with a
> link to more help in this.
>
> * Gnome-panel icon to show state of sharing with a timeout value to stop
> the share (configurable)
>
> * Integration with network-manager to enable/disable the share on
> specific networks
>
> Thoughts?

You also need some kind of monitoring to show who's the b*rd that's
connecting in the middle of a big download and sucking up all the
bandswidth (and a way to selectively kill connections).

Monitoring needs are inversely proportional to the ease with which you can
setup shares and make mistakes.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot