[TriLUG] samba vs. webdav on small mixed-os networks?

[Andrew Perrin]

Hey, that's cool - I never heard of webdav before, thanks for pointing it
out. How mature is it?

ap

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Mark Kempster wrote:

> Roy Vestal wrote:
> > I'm getting ready to setup a server at home. I want to share, via SAMBA,
> > a couple of drives, and at the same time use it as a webserver. i know
> > that this isn't the most ideal thing, but I only have room for one
> > server.
>
> I find myself in a similar situation.
>
> As a prototype, I set up apache2 (debian testing + unstable), which is
> almost out-of-the-box set up to share webdav, which you can map as a
> 'network drive' on a windows box. I think nautilus will let you do the
> same sort of thing, as will the file browser (what's it called?) on OSX.
> As a last resort, you can always get to files via a web browser.
>
>
> On to the question: In a mixed-OS network with 1-3 linux servers and
> 1-10 mixed-OS clients, what's the best way to share a linux server's
> filesystem?
>
> Does it change if the linux server will also run a webserver anyway?
>
> How about if all the clients are MS?
>
> TIA
> Cheers
> - Mark
>
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