From: Mike Eisler (mre@eng.sun.com)
Date: 09/25/98-01:51:54 PM Z
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:51:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Eisler <mre@eng.sun.com> Subject: Re: locking errors Message-ID: <Roam.SIMCSD.2.0.4.906749514.21793.mre@eng.sun.com> > On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 03:55:28PM +0100, Carl Beame wrote: > > On Thu Sep 24 16:55:45 1998, Geoff Arnold wrote: > > > > > Tools, tools, tools, TOOLS!. > > > > > > Sorry. What I meant to say was, real need, wrong approach. It's > > > definitely time to resurrect the NFS MIB. (Sorry, that should be > > > MOF. Or CIM/XML. Or whatever. You get the idea.) > > > > > > > You mean an NFS MIB along with a DNS MIB, a password MIB, a NIS+ MIB, > > exports MIB, UID mapping MIB. > > > > I don't believe that the MIB approach is the answer. We need MANDATORY > > management features if we have any goals of NFS becoming the defacto > > standard for filesystem access. > > > > - Carl > > P.S: What about printing ... are will still using LPR? > > Why should a file access protocol have anything to do with printing? > Just because SMB does it doesn't (necessarily) mean it's a good idea. Agreed. Also, doesn't the Internet Printing Protocol address the need for an open standard printing protocol? -mre
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