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. Maybe client does not and should not have network access to nas. Maybe alexandria does not have the hardware to plug the disks. Maybe alexandria implements caching that nas is not capable of doing. And so on and so on. Regards, -- Nicolas George
