Hello, I'm not a very experienced Samba user. Now I have the following problem: I have implemented a document management system (with version control tool ClearCase) running under Unix. All the NT-users are also available under unix with the same name. The directories containing the documents are exported via Samba. For accessing the documents from a WEB-browser running on NT and for providing the correct (Unix) access rights, a WEB-application uses links of the following form: file://nmdoc/webdoc/<path>/xxxx.doc nmdoc: the samba server webdoc: the exported share The only thing I've forgotten is, that there are also users running their WEB-browsers under Unix (Linux, HP-UX, SUN-OS). My question therefore, is it possible to provide them the same links as under NT ? Do Samba provide only the possibility to export to NT or also to Unix ? Best regards Rudolf
Etzel Rudolf wrote:> > Hello, > > I'm not a very experienced Samba user. Now I have the following problem: > > I have implemented a document management system (with version control tool > ClearCase) running under Unix. > > All the NT-users are also available under unix with the same name. The > directories containing the documents are exported via Samba. > > For accessing the documents from a WEB-browser running on NT and for > providing the correct (Unix) access rights, a WEB-application uses links of > the following form: > > file://nmdoc/webdoc/<path>/xxxx.doc > > nmdoc: the samba server > webdoc: the exported share > > The only thing I've forgotten is, that there are also users running their > WEB-browsers under Unix (Linux, HP-UX, SUN-OS). My question therefore, is it > possible to provide them the same links as under NT ? Do Samba provide only > the possibility to export to NT or also to Unix ? >I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than myself will comment, but I believe what you want is Sharity on the commercial "Uniques" and smbfs on Linux. I don't believe smbclient will get you there. I.e., you need something to make the Samba-exported shares look like part of the native file system.
Etzel Rudolf wrote:> For accessing the documents from a WEB-browser running on NT and for > providing the correct (Unix) access rights, a WEB-application uses links of > the following form: > > file://nmdoc/webdoc/<path>/xxxx.doc > > nmdoc: the samba server > webdoc: the exported share > My question therefore, is it > possible to provide them the same links as under NT ? Do Samba provide only > the possibility to export to NT or also to Unix ?Smbsh will do this, but Netscape won't accept a // in the file: path except when doing ftp. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com