On Tuesday 03 January 2006 20:20, Gary Corcoran wrote: > > 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. > >>>[...] > >> > >>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
As I wrote: it could be done via browser, but 1. it is a request 2. I became curious, if it is possible ... Richard BTW: I appologize, if I am cross-posting. Originally only posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't realize, how it appeared on freebsd-questions -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Richard Kästner EDV-Beratung Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden Austria _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
