Sharespace

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Sharespace is a special filesystem on frontios.vistua.net which is accessible from anywhere in the Vistua WLAN. Sharespace is what is called a "distributed filesystem" or "network share" depending on O.S. terminology.

Any files and/or folders placed in this directory become available everywhere within the WLAN. For example. If User A puts a word-processing document in Sharespace, she can go to a desktop in the network and access it from there.

How Sharespace works.

On Frontios itself

Sharespace is mounted on /sharespace on this host.

On Unices

On UNIX-type operating systems such as Linux and BSD, Sharespace is exported as an NFS mount. I.E. the folder is directly "grafted" into the main File-System tree. Typically this directory is called /sharespace

(See also Sharespace (Windows))

Sharespace Permissions

Sharespace supports standard UNIX permissions. All files in Sharespace should be assigned world read-write permissions¹ and should be owned by the user smbguest and the group nobody. A script is executed that enforces these permissions every hour, 17 minutes past the hour (plus or minus a random duration).

To activate this script manually issue the command fixsharespace on the frontios.vistua.net host. (I.E. from KDE press [alt][f2], type this and press enter, or SSH to the host and enter it on the commandline.)

Miscellaneous

Sharespace is not backed up!

Have no expectation of privacy on Sharespace.

Do not set the sticky bit, suid bit or sguid bit; all custom permissions will be automatically disabled anyway.

Notes

¹ Octal permissions 0666 for files & 0777 for directories

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