Arlen,

what is your astute recommendation for consolidating both the
passwd and data files as a single file accesssed from all Windows,
Linux, Android, and iOS machines on your local LAN?

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/10/...d-the-desktop/

and

https://www.cio.com/article/3168902/...ows-files.html

.... or something like that.

Why ? Because you are asking us to help you to make something {1} you do
not even have a clue about of even half of what is all is involved to make
it become true. And that simply won't work.

{1} combine outof already existing parts ? You where not even clear about
that I'm afraid ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser








What we want now, is to have a *single* encrypted passwd file for the LAN.

Question, who is that "we" you are talking about ? Are you working in a
team or for a company ? Or are you perhaps royalty ? If nothing of that
all, whats wrong with saying "I" (as in you, Arlen) ?

Second: You are adding (more) requirements. And by it you are
dropping/invalidating the origional question *and all the already-gotten
answers to it*. How's that for wasting someones (the well-willing people
who responded to you - including myself) time ?

It would need to work with all machines & mobile devices on the LAN

Kiddo, you definitily have not thought about what you said there, or are
fully clueless. Mobile devices (unspecified!) ? I must than assume you
mean those iThingies (iOS) and googlephones (Android) too.

In that case, good luck with finding either single executable which will
work the same on both windows and other OSes, or with finding a single idea
implemented for all of them. :-D

That requires some kind of central "server".
....
Perhaps that's the native SMB server inherent in Windows?
....
Or perhaps that's some other server, e.g., ftp, or http?

You already have ideas, go google them ! You might even find some other
possibilities too (in other words: do not expect us to do your work for
you).

And by the way: good luck with finding something that runs iOS that will
talk SMB. And there is a good chance it will not even run FTP nativily
either.

Now that we have the original tasks both successfully working
perfectly on the first pass ...

So, you expect us to do all the "will it work?" checking for you too ? If
so, whats than left for you to do ?

... on any given Windows machine

And what about all those mobile devices ? Don't expect to find Windows
there.

And thats *again* ignoring the differences between the versions of Windows,
which has been pointed out to you to exist even between the versions of the
OS related to the newsgroups you posted your message in.














"Arlen Holder" wrote in message
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Let's stop wasting everyone's time playing silly semantic games.
Let's instead, move the technical ball forward.

What we want now, is to have a *single* encrypted passwd file for the LAN.
It would need to work with all machines & mobile devices on the LAN.

That requires some kind of central "server".

Perhaps that's the native SMB server inherent in Windows?
\\server\share\path\file.ext

Or perhaps that's some other server, e.g., ftp, or http?
http://192.168.1.10/path/file.htm

What do you think?

Now that we have the original tasks both successfully working perfectly on
the first pass on any given Windows machine, what is your astute
recommendation for consolidating both the passwd and data files as a
single
file accesssed from all Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS machines on your
local LAN?