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

Ryan Leathers ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com
Fri Jun 27 13:14:22 EDT 2003


Its pretty hard to beat smb for the simple fact that just about
everything can deal with it.  I guess its the lowest common denominator
approach to heterogeneous file sharing

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:38, 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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Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
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