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[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Sailaja Josyula wrote:
> > We are writing our own SMBserver for Windows.  The reason we are doing
> > this is to allow users to map the contents of a DB to a network drive and
> > have users use MS Office applications to modify the DB content.
>
> You might just be able to write a custom VFS layer for Samba.  Have you
> checked this to see if it'd work for your project?

Hmmm, I would actually suggest writing a Samba4 NTVFS back end ... that
should be almost a one-to-one mapping ... and Samba 4 has a better model I
think for what you might want.

Regards
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