[Gllug] Samba or Something?

[Richard Cottrill]

I think that Samba is probably ideal. The smbclient prog would give a fairly
familiar ftp-style interaction. I suppose you could use expect scripts (or
maybe something a bit more flexible) to move around directories and files.
There's probably other options with Samba as well.

SSH might be another option, using scp. It has the added advantage of extra
security, with the usual drawback of more complexity.

If the NT machines are all running IIS then perhaps you could set up an
additional ftp or web service on them. If it were separate you could get all
of the usual benefits of being able to really lock-down the access
privileges.

Hope this is of some use.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Wulf Forrester-Barker
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: [Gllug] Samba or Something?
>
>
> 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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