In article <5e8c3bba49%rick@rick.actrix.gen.nz>, Rick Hudson
<URL:mailto:rick@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> But AFAIK MimeModule maps file /extensions/ to RISC OS filetypes which is not
> what I'm after. ArcShare does this on Win3.11 and it's a real pain. I'd like
> to be able to copy (extensionless) files and even applications to the server
> without filename mangling (except . and / exchanging) and be able to use them
> directly. eg I'd like to keep some useful applications on it that can be run
> directly by several RISC OS machines without the need to keep local copies.
> One solution I suppose would work is to create a raFS disc on the server
> which I know works on host filing systens that don't preserve the RISC OS
> file types. I know this sounds like a job for a RISC OS computer but RISC OS
> file serving is only one of the things it will be doing.

This is all done transparently (to RISC OS) in LanMan98 and works very
nicely. The filenames look rather ugly at the other end, i.e. on the PC, but
it doesn't really matter. All you need is a smb server on the Linux box and
the appropriate network settings on each RiscPC (I think you will have to use
TCP/IP transport as opposed to NetBEUI). You can also set up IP masquerading
on the linux box if you want the RiscPCs to be firewalled off from the
internet (or even if you want to share a dial-up account or T1 or whatever).
This is the setup I have in my office here.

Regards, Ian.

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