Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk companion software announcement
From: jon@colossus.cs.wits.ac.za
Date: Thu Feb 26 1998 - 01:03:24 EST
very nice idea, i especially like the idea of porting broadcast (something
i need desperately when i want to down my server). Now the trick is: how
do you run it?
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John Ostrowick
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Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ethan Gold wrote:
> Greetings. I'm announcing the first alpha/beta release of a network browser
> tool styled after the Macintosh Chooser. Tkchooser2 supports appletalk via
> netatalk and will hopefully soon support SMB via samba.
> I'd like to get an idea of how much interest there is in such a tool and if
> there is any interest in writing additional plugins.
> If you have any questions, suggestions or whatever, please email me.
> The URL for the tkchooser web page is:
> http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~etgold/chooser.html
>
> >From the README:
>
>
> Description:
> ------------
> Tkchooser(2) is an interpreted, modular, extensible
> network browsing utility for Xwindows designed after
> the Macintosh Chooser.
>
> Motivation:
> -----------
> There is no decent network browser for unix that I'm aware of.
> MacOS and Windoze both have reasonable interfaces to their
> respective LAN protocols. Unix increasingly has to live alongside
> Windoze and MacOS PC's and access their resources - especially if
> you are living in Linuxland. So I decided to model tkchooser after
> the macintosh chooser and give it multiple protocol capabilities.
> The idea is that thru a modular interface both Appletalk, SMB, and
> other (IPX?, IP?) protocols can be supported by reloadable modules.
> Functionality is provided by plugins which implement specific
> types of network operations such as mounting shared volumes, printing
> to shared printers, etc. Additionally, this interface could be used
> to set defaults for other tools as well. The tie between the plugins
> and the network modules is somewhat arbitrary. Plugins can register
> themselves with multiple protocols. In fact, the protocols do not even
> need to be network modules.
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> | Ethan Gold, Vassar College class of '97 |
> | http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~etgold/ |
> |---------------------------------------------------|
> | UGS Research Assistant |
> | Nonproliferation and International Security |
> | Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM |
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
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