On Jan 10, 2008 4:14 PM, Anonymous <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I maintain the CIFS file system for Linux and would be happy to help, but it seems someone has turned off the build of the cifs module in the .config of the OLPC kernel. It would be trivial to add that (and to make it easier to mount - the tiny module
mount.cifs).<br><br>If anyone knows who to contact, let me know. Jeremy Allison and others on the Samba team have discussed how obviously useful it would be to have cifs support in OLPC since it is by far the most popular protocol used to share files - and OLPC is space constrained in its local storage (cifs could be used to mount to other systems to access programs that would not fit on the local flash)
</blockquote><div> <br>I'm not sure if "most popular" carries much weight.<br><br>People wanting to mount a network file server volume to their XO don't really fit the model of schoolchildren in less-developed corners of the world using hand cranks just to keep connectivity up.
<br><br>Cool and Useful really only applies to thos people trying to use the XO beyond it's base educational scope.<br><br>I'd love to have this available on the developer builds, or easily added into a running system.
<br>But not having it in the bases system seems the correct decision to me.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Steve Holton<br><a href="mailto:sph0lt0n@gmail.com">sph0lt0n@gmail.com</a>