[TriLUG] Apache sharing files out of a samba share

[David McDowell]

ok, solution... and what I can't believe is I didn't catch this myself
*blush* && beat the crap out of...  Microsoft is the $devil here...
files were being placed in a directory, and with NTFS, the defaults
are, "inherit perms of parent".  This is always true by default unless
a directory is specifically told not to inherit or pass down it's
permissions.  Somehow the SMB share was being retarded and needed to
be beat around, b/c the perms on some files didn't inherit from
parent... and it just *so* happened to be the ones with form fillable
vs the ones which weren't.  What a strange coicidence to make it a
PITA to troubleshoot.  At least I can admit my errors... please not
jokes about using NTFS (at least on list)... :p

thanks for everyone's help,
David McD


On 7/18/05, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:
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> David McDowell wrote:
> | well, I still can't figure this one out.  we're seemingly having
> | better results with the jpg and mp3 files, but the word files are
> | still wacky.  Saved with Word 2002 version, plain docs are great, but
> | docs with form fillable stuff come through as 0 bytes.  Perms are the
> | same on both types of files.  I thought maybe some macro type stuff
> | exists in the form fillable types, but it fails with firefox/OOo on
> | linux as well, so I decided that couldn't be it.  Am I mounting to the
> | samba share correctly in fstab?
> |
> | //MYWINSERVER/mysharename        /mnt/mysharename        smbfs
> | uid=apache,credentials=/path/to/.mycredfile 0 0
> |
> | It is the apache user which should be put here I presume.  I'm
> | considering trying an NFS share off another linux box just to see what
> | results I get from that.
> |
> | laters,
> | David McD
> |
> |
> Question: can you read the files normally, but get an empty file when
> served up by apache?  Or are they empty in both cases?
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