jarl van katwijk wrote: > > > The rootDL has to grant access to another DL. That's the only way DL's > > connect to the BL: through the rootDL, correct? > > No, the rootDL calls the autorize() function inside the BL, passes a new dlID > and password, so that this other dl can login to the BL. I see. Concerning the 'filesystem', a DL->BL session will lock one volume/network for itself. A DL->DL->BL session (as Jarl thought up) would require the two DL's to be synchronized somehow. Either they will have to be initialized (started) together, or one DL will have to update itself to the current state of the other DL. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+