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<div>Hello, Manila-philes.</div>
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<div>Back in Paris we started talking about Manila mount automation, whereby file shares could be automatically mounted on clients, and this will likely be a topic in Vancouver. So in order to have an informed discussion at the summit, I'd like to explore
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<div>Besides brute force approaches like SSH or PsExec, one of the community suggestions was to use Zeroconf (aka Bonjour)[1]. Zeroconf sounds attractive on the surface, but it seems to have a number of limitations:</div>
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<div> * No standard way to specify local mount point</div>
<div> * Additional setup required to work beyond the 'local' domain</div>
<div> * Custom software needed on clients to mount advertised shares</div>
<div> * Same issues with network connectivity as any other mount automation solution</div>
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<div>Does anyone have a clearer idea how Zeroconf might satisfy the need for Manila mount automation?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Clinton Knight</div>
<div>Manila core team</div>
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<div>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking</div>
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