early-gdm redux ( I am sorry my way is better faster... for a desktop )

[Jon Nettleton]

On 9/13/07, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That might work for a single user, but what about a family of users
> > that want to share photos?  If anything I would suggest a webdav
> > enabled svn repo than rsync+cron.  Drag and drop data, instant
> > revision control.  With some ldap and apache magic you can get user
> > privileges refined as well.
>
> maybe you missed my point.  I'm not talking about a central file
> server that can have mature ldap and apache implementation. This isn't
> a small business network, with central management. This is a home
> network that has maybe on average 3 personal computers in use on the
> network.  I'm talking about smb/cifs enabled "bricks" you go to a
> retail store to purchase then plug into your home network and they are
> expected to act like a windows file share that can be accessed from
> each of those home computers.
>

Oh I understand.  That is what you get now, but another year or so you
will get what I am describing.  It all completely makes sense as an
evolutionary step.

I am not really sure why everyone hates autofs so much.  I am always
looking for something better, but for general purpose file sharing it
just works.

Jon