Theodore Patrick wrote:
What I am referring to is rendering objects in the ZOPE database to a file system view. The object database could be managed as a Network Drive(except that the view would be data in the ZOPE object database). You could through some translation (xml or other) render the object database to CIFS/NFS.
<snipped various interesting examples of filesystem access to zope>
I guess what I am asking is: Can Zope act like a CIFS/NFS file system(virtual file system) with a layer of translation for converting Zope Objects to File system objects directly (XML or other)?
You seem to be asking for a hybrid of Zope and Samba ;-) Seriously, we have Samba, so one answer would be a filesystem driver for the undelying OS that talks to the Zope server to get its information. This could be re-exported as a samba share, or NFS or AFS or Coda or what-have-you. I've been musing about it for linux for a little bit - I'm going to try and convince one of the bright sparks around here to take a crack at it. For NT hosted Zope, you'd need to write an equivalent filesystem driver - apparently the the SDK for that is ~$1000. Oh, and parts of this are already present in the ZServer - it talks FTP, and there was some discussion of exposing object properties as virtual docs of some sort. Check the list archives. Ross -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005