[Gllug] Samba or Something?

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

One of the projects I'm involved with at work is a web-based application
that monitors log files from a number of key machines and displays an
assessment of their status via a traffic lights metaphor. This has been
very useful in providing quick notification of error conditions.

At the moment the display is done using Active Server Pages (VBScript
served off an IIS/NT4 machine). The data is polled to the webserver from
various locations round the network using a C++ program that I've
kludged together (because I was having problems accessing remote
locations directly from the IIS server). However, this is a pain to
maintain and I'm spending a bit of time looking at alternative
solutions.

One is to create Virtual Directories that point straight to locations
such as '\\myserver\logfiles" and see if that gives me the direct access
I need (thus doing away with C++ feeder program). However, since we've
got a Linux box sitting in the Server Room, calling out for something
useful to do, I was wondering how to go about accessing those machines
from Linux.

As you can see from the above, at the moment I'm using Windows to
connect across to the machines. Therefore, I'm assuming that Samba might
allow me some way to replicate this access from the Linux box. I'd be
grateful for suggestions and pointers to further reading that might help
- particularly things that are focused on this kind of 'look up a
machine on the network and read some of its files' sort of access, as
that will help me make a quick evaluation of whether it is worth
pursing.

Cheers,

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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