Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ariel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!jlw From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Transparent Remote File Access Systems: Short Summary Message-ID: <865@ariel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 19:24:58 EST Article-I.D.: ariel.865 Posted: Fri Mar 1 19:24:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:10:14 EST References: <257@oblio.UUCP> <54@daisy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 23 I don't think that this represents a very transparent filesharing system at all. In the scenario: /usr/david on host: david is addressed as: /net/david/usr/david The user has to know not only that the fiel is remote but also what host it is on. What if this were netnews on a remote system that you were reading to save block on the local system. What happens when the administrator needs to move news? Do all the interface programs have to be recompiled? Joseph L. Wood, III AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel (201) 834-3759titania!jlw