OpsNav access to IFS (was RE: Transfer file using Ops Navigator? )

Mike:

On Wed, 12 December 2001, "Smith, Mike" wrote:

> ok, i'll concede that, cause i wasn't aware of that, but i'm lazy and don't
> wanna have to install netserver.
> if i can see that it is there through ops nav then LET ME OPEN IT. i want to
> have my cake and eat it to.

I don't quite understand "install netserver". There's nothing to "install" 
unless you mean any necessary host-server options of OS/400 or the networking 
service on the PC. Of course, if you have never installed the host side of 
things nor PC networking, you ain't gonna be pulling anything down to PCs 
anyway.

As for opening through OpsNav directly... I can edit it now (using OpsNav 5.1 
at least) by selecting RMB-<Edit>. However, I'm not sure that should be 
allowed. My personal feeling is that it should _only_ be allowed through a 
defined share (mapped drive). I'd rather have OpsNav have as small a footprint 
as possible; and since I can map a drive through OpsNav and since I can do 
anything else needed through the mapped drive without executing OpsNav in the 
future, I'd prefer not having OpsNav include the support that my Windows 
desktop already has. Further, I might have a more centralized control of 
authorities if I can rely more on share permissions. And if I haven't created a 
share, it's a public way to demonstrate that objects in that directory 
shouldn't be accessed directly from a client.

Tom Liotta

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