Hello,
After using samba for about a year now on my home network, and for a couple
months now on my work network, I feel that I'm familiar enough with most of
the tricks with the % variables to know there isn't a clean way to solve my
problem, which is this:
I use samba at home to share a lot of DOS programs. Most of the ones I have
problems with are games, emulators, etc, but this option would be nice for
other stuff too. These programs want their config files in their directory and
to be a certain name. This is a problem when you have a very heterogeneous
computer enviornment as far as hardware is concerned. I would like to be able
to have the config files available to the programs (transparently) on a per
machine basis.
What would be ideal is an option like the one for remapping usernamed, but for
files. One that would interpret the samba variables. So that I could
define some like:
/home/samba/games/doom/doom.cfg = \
/home/samba/%m/doom.cfg
Now, I understand there could be some speed concerns related to this. Any wise
person would only have a handful of mappings in this file. Because of
the speed concerns, this is probably an option that would have its code left in
or out at compile time.
I have looked at the samba source a little bit, enough for it to confuse the
hell out of me. I have never done any unix programming before, but I do
have DOS experience. I would be willing to try and code this, but I would need
help. I'm hoping that it might be as simple as when a file open call
is made to samba, I can simply call a function that will translate the filename
string before any system calls are made. This is something I know I can
program. So, to the developers, does this sound possible?
Also, if this sounds like a useful option to anyone else out there, please let
me know.
Thanks,
Kevin Currie
