Re: Black hole shares

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:50:02 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:50:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, Dan Shearer <dshearer@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Black hole shares
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.980326185759.11000F-100000@audrey>

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Dan Shearer wrote:

> Microsoft Office (and other Windows packages) wants to write to
> ridiculous files that it has no reason to, system DLLs, its own .EXEs and
> the like. This is what makes it so very hard to run Office from a network
> server, NT or any other. There are ways, but they are all very nasty.

dan, we run microtoss office's word 97 at the cafe. i copied the
necessary files until it worked. i _haven't_ registered the dlls, but the
entire share is definitely read-only.

we just put up with the "do you want to save normal.dot"? no
[substitute-swear-word-of-your-choice] way, when you exit.

> What about a new share property that let any number of users open any
> number of files for writing in any byte range (or even any number of
> exclusive file locks) but nothing was ever actually written? Have to do
> some audits first on what really is happening but its just an idea I was
> throwing around with Richard Sharpe.

this would be interesting to investigate. a "fake write" option :-)