[Gllug] Samba or Something?

[mike]

On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 11:21, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 1/4/02, 10:46:57 AM, "Wulf Forrester-Barker" <wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk> wrote 
> regarding [Gllug] Samba or Something?:
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Samba can definitely do something of the kind.  The simplest way to do it 
> is to set up shares that run a script each time they are opened.  The 
> script would clear out the old contents, poll the data and stick it in 
> files in the share before showing the contents to the windows client.  
> The complex way would involve writing a Samba virtual filesystem - they 
> do provide a skeleton you can build on.
> 
> The simple solution is very easy: you just need the preexec option
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#PREEXEC
> 
> The script can do anything you like, anything your Linux box can do.
> 

I may be wrong but Ithink it may be even easier with samba.

1. join linux box to network with a relevant user on the domain
2. set up mount points
3. set up shares in fstab quoting uid/password pairs

At least in my experience the old p[roblem with dropping shares has been
greatly reduced since 2.2


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