Subject: [DGD] Alternatives to the Kernel model of security...
From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Felix A. Croes)
Date: Wed Jan 28 12:27:01 2004

Noah Gibbs wrote:

>[...]
>   WebDAV, which others have recommended, has the
> advantage of allowing a similar interface, and the
> disadvantages of being hard to use, not very portable
> and being completely unfamiliar to most potential
> users.  NFS has the same problems, but appeals to a
> different subset of users (i.e. Linux rather than Mac
> or Windows).

There's a Linux kernel module called davfs2 which allows you to
mount WebDAV filesystems:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/dav/

so it's portable enough to run on your developers' three most
likely choices of operating system.  There also seems to be a
command-line client called cadaver which can up/download files.
Mounting a WebDAV filesystem is easy on a Mac, presumably also
in Windows, don't know about Linux.

Regards,
Dworkin