Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Subject: Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc From: Jess X-Editor: EmailEdit 6.00 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:57:52 GMT Message-ID: References: <8e12bd6952.c.n.l.f@virgin.net> <8b4e116a52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <58ea4d6a52.Broadband@thomas.smith57.virginmedia.com> <526a5f9389chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <0fda7e6d52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> Organization: ITWorkshop User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/6.03 (MsgServe/6.00) (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.20.173.77 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=Ked64gmMcQALCYW^HlPiL@YSB=nbEKnkK2DC[:fADiWAMo@OLBVNESJ?J[Q:hI>9EMjOgkk0RWXjA9XjE_PRBic@6ZjFb>QM27F?DnJl7^Pb6O X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4170 In message <0fda7e6d52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> Martin Wuerthner wrote: > In message > Jess wrote: >> In message >> Rick Murray wrote: >>> Seriously, it is a resource broker. Shared stuff (ie ShareFS) is >>> registered with FreeWay which deals with advertising these things to >>> other systems and marshalling other system's resources into an easy >>> to work with structure. *FWShow will tell you what's available. >> Would that mean that it could be updated to deal with Samba or NFS >> shares (between RISC OS systems)? > Why would you want that? You would still need the actual client and > server software to deal with the advertised SMB and NFS shares, and > they already come with implementations of the corresponding resource > broker protocols. ShareFS has issues between machines of different power. freeway is part of RISC OS. It would be nice if other protocols, rather than having to do their own thing, could register the resources with freeway, and work as though they are part of the system in the OS (apart from the not working properly part). -- Jess Iyonix