Re: Intranets, Linux, Windows, Samba and Macs!
- From: Ian Gregory <foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Sep 2007 14:30:11 GMT
On 2007-09-18, Jolly Roger <wbyylebtre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-09-17 23:17:35 -0500, Heath Raftery <hraftery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Wouldn't it be better to have the webserver serve the files? This ugly
combination of protocols is asking for trouble, IMHO. Just because Windows
uses the location bar in Explorer for *everything* (CIFS, local, web, ftp,
scary1, scary2) doesn't mean you should take advantage of it!
Instead, can't you set up your webserver to share the resource in question
and map it to a URL? Then links to the files would simply be URLs on the
webserver, and you only have one point of failure, instead of one for
every client.
Excellent advice.
Yes, that is what I was thinking too - at least for files where
read-only access is all that is required.
If the OP wants people on various clients to be able to modify
the files in question then things are trickier, with all sorts
of locking issues (locking over NFS is a notorious source of trouble).
In any case, the starting point would surely be to remotely mount
the central filesystem on all the clients and then do local access
on the clients. Accessing everything using a remote file "URL" might
seem like a neat trick but is likely to be more trouble than it
is worth even if it can be forced to work on all clients.
Ian
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