Fuse won't work on Windows.
My choice would be:
- FUSE for Unix/Mac
- Eldos Callback List or Filter (we're currently using Filter) for Windows (http://www.eldos.com/)
Regards
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I'm not looking for implemented solution but a way to implement the solution
Goran
2009-02-27 12:14:47
VirtualBox is a whole virtual machine, not just a virtual disk. To answer the question, you'd need a guest OS serving SMB, WebDAV or something like that. And that would be a pretty big waste of disk and performance.
Chris Dolan
2009-03-05 02:42:25
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What about simple FTP? Or NAS? Stick with a standard protocol and you shouldn't have any problems integrating with it. I wrote a Linux SFTP filesystem extension once Back In The Day, but with most OSes supporting user-mode filesystems nowadays, it shouldn't be too hard to integrate with whatever you might choose.
TMN
2009-02-27 13:31:27
+6
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A simple solution is to use the native SMB client for each of your target platforms, then use that to mount a custom Samba filesystem implemented using Samba's VFS API. Custom NFS servers have been used to implement cross platform Unix virtual file systems, but SMB is a much better choice to support Windows and Linux.
If you need the VFS to access client-side resources, you must run the Samba server with your VFS on the client and then use a loopback or localhost network to mount the drive. Samba is widely ported including a port to Win32 using Cygwin as an adapter.
Ken Fox
2009-02-27 16:19:44
This is as close to an answer as I got. Still no simple solution exists so I guess we're back to reinventing the wheel.
Goran
2009-03-09 11:50:23
+4
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WebDAV. In a heartbeat. It's cross-platform by nature, and there's a substantial amount of client support, as well as decent open source server code. Apache mod_dav is your friend.
Check out WebDAV client support on Mac, Windows, and Linux:
- OS X built-in support
- Windows XP/Vista built-in support (drive mapping, per-folder)
Open source WebDAV servers:
And don't forget to look at WebDAV resources.
Anirvan
2009-03-03 17:08:42
I wrote a custom WebDAV file system and supporting all the various buggy clients is a huge task. My company eventually limited support to just a few clients (Windows web folders, MS Office) that had bugs we knew. If I did it again, I'd write a Samba VFS plug-in.
Ken Fox
2009-03-04 03:28:26
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Microsoft Live Mesh will give you synchronized folders across Windows, Mac, your online Mesh storage, and Windows Mobile phones.
David
2009-03-03 17:25:35
You're missing Linux.Also, Microsoft and cross-platform do not go hand in hand.
LiraNuna
2009-03-04 02:05:28
+2
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I use jungledisk on all of the mentioned platforms to backup and share files. If you look at their download page, you'll see all of the platforms it's compatible with. I backup my webserver (CentOS x64), a mac OSX 10.5, and a dual-boot pc (Vista/Fedora) all under one license!
- All versions use WebDav
- Linux version also has FUSE capability
- Uses Amazon's affordable S3 storage platform
- Soon to add Cloud Files support (Mosso) at 15¢/gb no charge for I/O.
Blaine
2009-03-04 05:42:20
+1
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SSHFS (requires SFTP on the host side). There are some bugs with it, but we've had good luck with it overall.
Mitch Haile
2009-03-06 14:55:28
+1
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You can use Alfresco JLAN. JLAN is a Java-Client and Java-Server Implementation of the protocols CIFS, NFS und FTP. With JLAN can files be shared over the network, which are available via a network drive.
The download is at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=248550
Horcrux7
2009-03-08 09:43:20