good smb client implementation by using the kernel

[Herb Lewis]

Jelmer Feenstra wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine and I had the following idea, I'm looking for some
> comments/suggestions on the matter :
> 
> Would it be possible to supply smb browsing/listing/reading/writing by using
> a sort of userfs (kernelspace) and a daemon taking care of the actual
> filesystem stuff (userspace). It would allow users to just cd /smb/workgroup
> ; ls ; cd computer ; ls ; cd share ... etc.
> 
> Can this be done ?
> 
> Jelmer Feenstra

Take a look at smbwrapper. For those systems that don't support smbfs
this does exactly what you say all in user space using a shared library
to overload system calls.
-- 
======================================================================
Herb Lewis                               Silicon Graphics 
Networking Engineer                      1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510
Strategic Software Organization          Mountain View, CA  94043-1351
herb at sgi.com                             Tel: 650-933-2177
http://www.sgi.com                       Fax: 650-932-2177          
======================================================================