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Re: [unrelated as hell]
by Eric E on Thursday 21/Feb/2002, @15:37

I think I fall between you and the original poster.
Samba is a pain the butt in many ways - it is definitely not turn on and play the way a webshare is.
However...........
Like it or not, there's still a lot of benefits to having samba shares available:
a) lots of users and organizations rely on Windows filesharing
b) All Windows apps can read and write directly to samba fileshares. I use a samba share
c) Windows networking has better "resource discovery" than http. If we want usable file sharing over http (which I think is a good long-term direction), we need to add security and resource discovery quick. Otherwise I think we're encouraging people to slap stuff on the web without thinking.

You might check out clarkconnect.org. They've done a remarkable job reworking RedHat so that it sets up samba on an internal network and httpd access for an external one. KPF could easily be reformatted to help users make dual samba/http fileshares, with the http ones available everywhere, and the samba ones available only on selected subnets, and only if samba is available.

Cheers,

Eric

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