Richard Kästner wrote:
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:29, Björn König wrote:
Richard Kästner schrieb:
Hello,
hope to find some help, hints and experience here:
an external device expects commands and command data,
it produces result-codes and result data.
Communication is done via HTTP (and working)
The idea is, to allow access via Samba, which requires either
implementation of Samba - VFS modules or mapping to BSD-Filesystem -
pseudofs came to my mind.
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Hello,
your description is a little bit vague to me, but it sounds like that
this task can be probably done by using portalfs. See mount_portalfs(8)
for examples.
Regards Björn
Björn,
(sorry for being vague - I seem to be too deep in my problems)
thanks for the tip - portalfs was the first thing to try, but it does not work
with samba (at least the way, I wanted ):
Portalfs does not allow to pass anything besides '/p/tcp/localhost/6666'
To be less vague :
the external device is a black box, communicates via ???-HTTP server.
The idea is:
- a (windows)user copies a file to a directory (say: .../commands/xyz),
- there is a "thing", that maps this file to some activity towards external
box (similar to: procfs_doprocnote )
- as a response, a file appears in another file (.../response/data),
which can be read from (windows)client ( similar to: procfs_doproccmdline)
- the whole stuff should work diskless
- response data can be from a few bytes up to several megabyte
- if I can manage, I could export this filesystem via samba _and_ nfs ...
- if it all was only about acces to the black box, it could be done via
HTTP ... unfortunately, I have to deal with windows clients
I'm just curious: why can't the windows clients just use Firefox (or
any other browser) to access the black box? You can download files
(e.g. results) with a browser...
Gary
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