6 May
2002
6 May
'02
4:53 p.m.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
While I agree there is plenty of room for preferences,
I don't see why one
would want everything isolated from everything else on the LAN, when the
existence of the LAN is warranted by the need for shared access. ON top of
that, typing half a screenful of text just to make some file on some other
machine accessible seems a mite burdensome. Even under DOS it only takes a
single half-line of text.
mount -t smbfs //server/share -o username=doc /mnt/remote
Dick, I've seen you run that line of crap half-a-dozen times. Maybe
in the Dark Ages it took "half a screenful of text just to make some
file on some other machine accessible" It hasn't been true for a long
damn time. The above command will mount a shared _Windows_ resource
locally on a Linux box. That's iff you're too lazy to make it a
3-stroke alias, or an icon on your desktop. Actual Unix network
resources are even simpler.
Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to
stroke their own need
for pseudo-sophistry.
some people seem to parrot the same set of arguments over and over,
without ever investigating their validity.
Doc