> Well, until someone also comes up with an extension to handle the Unix
> filename space (which the proposed Unix extension does not, it says it
> is an independent issue), at least I consider it useless.
There is a proposal to do unix semantics over CIFS. Look at
www.cifs.com. Roger Binns has promised to implement it in
VisionFS. Samba and smbfs are also candidates, although nobody has
really done anything about it.
> Novell, I believe, have supported all kinds of name/attributespaces
> for a long time, so it wouldn't surprise me if NCP would handle Unix
> correctly with the right server software.
This might be true. But the server software is probably quite
expensive. And you will _always_ have semantic mismatches. Novell's
permission scheme is much finer grained than the Unix model.
Volker
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