<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Anish Mangal <anishmg@umich.edu> </div><div>Date: 10/27/2015 1:33 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: xsce-devel <xsce-devel@googlegroups.com> </div><div>Cc: server-devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [XSCE] usbmount </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Tim Moody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anish Mangal<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 11:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> xsce-devel <<a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> server-devel <<a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [XSCE] usbmount<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Why the need to have a folder with a specific name? In different langs, the folder name could be different to make sense to users?<u></u><u></u></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I assume you mean on the usb not the symlink. The worry was that we wouldn't want to share the /grades or /myphotos folders, so we should restrict the share to specific folders. The link students will see will just be USBx, which is pretty international. Also, /library/content renders unicode names, so files inside the share in any language should work.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Remember, this is a dynamic share, not a copy at the moment.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I meant on the USB. So if I understand your explanation correctly, everything in the USB drive will be linked/shared in a folder visible to the students?<br></div><div> </div><div>Everything under /media/usbn/share (or either of the other 2 checked ) will appear as /library/content/USBn. Nothing else is shared. /library/content is already in the web space. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Another idea could be to link it to the folderspace where owncloud houses it's content to allow easy back and forth between the server and the USB key - unless there is a better mechanism. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I think owncloud is a much more feature-rich alternative. You can create folders with any name you like with restrictions on users. You can upload files to those folders from your hard disk or an attached usb. I also think owncloud creates db records for uploads and we would have to do that manually, which could be tricky and risky.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1. Fair enough. Hacking here might lead to problems. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I think the automount is simple with some restrictions and owncloud is more complex with more functionality.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Tim Moody <<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I'm working on adding LibraryBox/PirateBox type functionality whereby if a usb in plugged into the server it is automounted by usbmount and if it has /share, /Share, or /PirateShare in its root directory a symlink will be created in /library/content/USBx depending on where it was mounted.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think this should be enabled by default.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any comments?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div>
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