I suspect iFolder is a bit off-topic here.
Yes, I work with Novell consulting a lot and they have used it on several
projects. It is quite nice for synchronizing documentation efforts. Wait
for version 3.x though. It will be much more flexible. It will have P2P
support. That is now you can have a single project folder on a common
server that several folks can use. But with version 3.0, you will be able
to connect to multiple shared project folders and personal folders. I love
it as it keeps my desktop, laptop, and common project area all in sync.
What I don't like about it is that it has no painless way to switch project
folders. It assumes you are fairly uni-project focussed or don't mind
reentering your credentials and project path details constantly. There are
some scripted ways around this, but they are for techies not end-users.
At 2/25/2005 09:50 AM, hvjuan@kanux.com wrote:
>Has anybody tried novell's ifolder?
>
>Juan
>
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>>> To: Scott Fagg; Raul Dias; Avery Payne
>>> Cc: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
>>> Subject: RE: Samba vs NFS
>>>
>>> At 2/23/2005 04:06 PM, Scott Fagg wrote:
>>> >In my netware days, NSS was just volume management. Is it
>>> now being used
>>> >to described networked filesystems ?
>>>
>>> No sales pitch intended here. I just want to point out an
>>> alternative and
>>> get other opinions. Just like the rest of the group.
>>>
>>> NSS offer the following file access protocols (NAS protocols)
>>> CIFS, NFS,
>>> AFP, NCP, HTTP, FTP and WebDAV-are supported.
>>
>> While NSS may be a great file-system, it would still be at the mercy of
>> the limitations or capabilities of the. e.g. An NFSv3 client would not
>> necessarily be able to take advantage of ACLs on the source filesystem.
>>
>>>
>>> NSS has Rich namespace support-Novell Storage Services manages four
>>> namespaces simultaneously for the richest cross-platform file system
>>> available: Windows (case-insensitive), Unix (case-sensitive),
>>> Macintosh
>>> (case-insensitive) and DOS (case-insensitive). Namespace
>>> semantics are
>>> enforced for each namespace independently.
>>>
>>> I only point out NSS, because it appears to offer a richer if
>>> not stronger
>>> set of security and access control (more granularity)
>>> offerings on the
>>> back-end than most of the other file systems offer.
>>>
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