RE: [Boa Constr] file server access from Boa

[Gerrit V. D. <Ger...@de...>]

>I have developers using Boa on NT and need to be able
>to read and write files which are stored on a linux
>file server. Is there a way within Boa to search and
>get such files? Is the solution to use Samba to give
>access to directories just like Windows, or is there
>something within Boa which allows me to do this.
>

I don't think Boa has such a facility. The way we do it is to use samba to
export the linux filesystem. Boa then has no problem with the filesystem as
it is just another windows filesystem. In fact we use samba permanently for
almost any file sharing between windows and linux, not just for Boa. Our
main development file server is a linux server and samba works without any
problems. Our developers has the choice of which platform they want to
develop on(Linux or Windows). We use Visual C++ with the projects sitting on
the linux box and we have not experienced any problems yet.

Hope this helps
Gerrit
 
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