Re: Re: File areas etc
  By: Nelgin to BoonDock on Tue Feb 23 2021 14:41:01

 > If you are using Linux there is a work around, as long as you're not on an
 > openvz platform.
Thanks Nelgin. I'll store that as a possible solution. Not suitable for what I'm looking for at the moment unfortunately.

I'm working on getting all the pieces together for a distributed community project for improving communication with people in really poorly resourced communities. I'm collaborating with a friend of mine, so once I have all the issues figured out, we'll start implimenting, me here in Panama and him in a few African countries. The starting point is to use the available hardware, and from both of our experiences, that generally means a communally used windows machine of some sort, sometimes the "Chief's" laptop or an old battered tower in the mayor's office. Perfect for Linux if we had control of the machines, but the point of this is to give them a small piece of software which runs relatively unobtrusively on their current machines. We'll see. Maybe we can get some funding or hardware donations. It's one of the points on our agenda.

As for the LFN/SFN issue, even with your solution it doesn't work. If the local farmer wants to access the document that the Agricultural rep distributed, he needs to get the "This is a long stupid name.doc" not "somethin.doc". This is probably even more important for the generally over-worked and barely literate person who will end up adding the document in the first place.

One of the primary reasons why I'm looking at the BBS as a solution is that it's pretty intuative and easy to tech people how to use. The other major one is that almost everything is based on "store and forward" protocols so "sneaker-net" is viable as a distribution mechanism.

Thanks again

All the best
BoonDock

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