<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk (HE12025-03-20): > > > It's not a workaround. It's expected behaviour. You told the NAS > > > to share some of its contents with alexandria. That's what it's > > > doing. Why would you expect it to respond to a random request > > > from some other computer? > > > > That is not what it is doing. nas would only be replying to > > alexandria. The only difference is that alexandria is asking on > > behalf of client and not on its own behalf. > > > > > Alternatively, why would you expect alexandria to share > > > content that doesn't belong to it? > > > > There are many scenarios where it is useful, you just have to > > exercise your imagination. > > Agreed. > > Besides, we already know NFS can do that (with caveats). I wonder > whether people read the other postings in the threads they reply > to :)
I certainly don't always read all the posts in a long thread before replying. And I stand by what I wrote, although I'd now qualify it by saying that that's the default position and it can now be overridden. And I try not to respond with rude responses, although sometimes it is difficult. > And, as someone pointed out, ganesha NFS (a user-space server) > seems to explicitly allow that. Available as a Debian package > (of course, the NAS will be running something and not letting > the user change it, violating lots of free software licenses > in the process, but people keep paying for that, so...) > > Cheers
