Netropolis Linux Download Client


DESCRIPTION

This is a small perl script that is used in conjunction with Netropolis. It
requires Samba and perl.

MOTIVATION

To privide access to non-windows users to the awesome capabilities of local
network file sharing as improved by Netroplis.

This client is still somewhat buggy. Please don't be too mad at me if it
doesn't always work perfectly.

INSTALLATION

1) mv netropolis-client-1.0/netropolis_client.pl /usr/local/bin (as root!)

2) Edit netropolis_client.pl - change the directory to the one you want it
   it to use, and make sure the path to smbclient is correct by typing
   		whereis smbclient

3) Open up the web browser (Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, etc) that you use,
   and go to the preferences or settings or equivalent menu option, and go
   to Handlers or Helpers or Mime Types or something similar. Add a new mime
   type of type 'download/samba', and for the helper application put
   'netropolis_client.pl'

4) Go to your Netropolis-powered site, and make sure to choose *nix for your
   OS. You should be able to click on files that are "blue", or online and have
   them downloaded to the directory you chose in step 2).

CONTACT INFO

This program was written by Gabriel Burt (gburt@uiuc.edu). For more 
information visit the Netropolis project web site at
http://netropolis.sourceforge.net

LICENSE

Netropolis: Network indexer and searcher.
Copyright (C) 2002 Gabriel A. Burt

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.