At 09:49 AM 5/5/97 -0700, Gavin Scott wrote:
>Lars writes:
>> I'm afraid, Samba will not allow access to TurboIMAGE or other
>> MPE specific file or database types easily.
>
>Oh, I don't know.  This was one of the enhancements we dreamed up
>for the first version of Netware on the 3000.  The idea was that
>an image database would show up as a directory on the 3000 that
>you could CD to and then see all the datasets as files (named
>with the dataset name).  You would be able to do a serial read of
>any dataset by simply opening up the appropriate "file".  There
>was discussion of ways to pass in an Image password, either as
>part of the filename or by first writing the password to a "magic"
>file.
>
>It would all be custom extensions to the Samba code to do this, but
>it probably wouldn't be that hard to implement if someone can think
>of a really good reason to do it.
>
>You can even extend the idea to allowing modifications (putting new
>records by writing records to the dataset virtual file etc.).
>
>G.
>
>
I'm not sure I can think of good reasons to do this but I can think of
some reasons not to do this:

1.  Performance
2.  Performance
3.  Performance

Also, I would hate to think of the performance implications of doing this!

Bill Lancaster