On 7/16/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 13:26 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > All you do is drop files you want accessible publicly into your ~/Public > > folder, and everyone else on the local area network can see them when > > you go to "Computer->Network". No need to know about IP addresses, ssh, > > servers, etc. Now if you're not on the same local network it won't > > work, but if you are it can replace ssh/sftp/ftp in a much much better > > way. > > > > I strongly object this EVER making it into core without some > administrative method of restricting access or the ability to 'turn it > off'. Well, as Colin mentioned, it's not even in Extras yet let alone Core, and "turning it off" is as easy as not installing it or "yum remove gnome-user-share" if it's already installed (I highly doubt something like this -- if it ever made it into Core (which I doubt) -- would ever be installed and turned on by default, right Colin?) > User workstations are > not for sharing files. A file server is designed and useful for that. > The sysadmin in my shudders w/ terror. Sure, in a corporate environment with a file server, this is probably not something you'd want to deploy (but then again, maybe you would, we scp things back and forth all the time at work...), but in a 2- or 3- machine home environment, this might be just the ticket. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
