On 7/16/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> 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.
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