On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> Also, a user I was helping last night wanted a locally shared (filesystem, >> between users) folder... > > That's what /tmp is. :-) > > That said, it's a bad thing to store stuff there because it can get cleared > out automatically. But as a transfering mechanism it's OK, just not as a > storage mechanism. If you're referring to /tmp, I found that out myself the hard way. Same user I was helping was interested in a way of sharing files locally. So having a "supported" minimal solution to share files may be useful. Samba seems a bit heavy handed for that. And NFS only works with MacOS and Linux easily. Although last time I tried it with MacOS it wasn't very intuitive. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )
