[Samba] How to access shares via HTTP (apache2)

[Daniel Müller]

Why do you need to access your shares via HTTP???!!
THe only thing this might be usefull is from outside your lan over 
internet?!
If you plan this, there ist the linux opensource solution OPENVPN!! With 
this mighty software
you work with your shares and outlook from outside as if you were in your 
bureau.
Take a look at it and give it a try!
Daniel
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
Von: "Robert LeBlanc" <robert at leblancnet.us>
An: "Martin Balint" <martin.balint at gmail.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009 18:25
Betreff: Re: [Samba] How to access shares via HTTP (apache2)


> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Martin Balint 
> <martin.balint at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I configured samba fileserver as a member of samba domain. PDC and
>> fileserver are different machines.
>> It works great using windows sharing.
>> Now, I need to set up apache to serve my shares, but I am having
>> problem with permissions. Apache runs as www-user, and doesn't see
>> content in shares.
>> So I would like to ask, what is the proper way to use apache (or
>> another http server) to serve files on file server.
>> Using Ubuntu 9.10 and Samba 3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1.
>>
>> Thanks for help,
>> Martin
>>
>> Right now, my configuration is:
>> smb.conf
>> [global]
>>    workgroup = DOMAIN.EU
>>    netbios name = share2
>>    server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
>>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>    max log size = 1000
>>    syslog = 0
>>    panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>>
>> winbind separator = +
>> idmap uid = 10000-20000
>> idmap gid = 10000-20000
>> winbind enum users = yes
>> winbind enum groups = yes
>>
>>    security = domain
>>    password server = *
>>
>> [software]
>>         comment = Shared software
>>         path = /srv/fileserver/software
>>         force group = "DOMAIN.EU+domain users"
>>         create mask = 0660
>>         directory mask = 0770
>>         writable = yes
>>
>> /etc/nsswitch.conf:
>> passwd:         compat winbind
>> group:          compat winbind
>>
>> # ls -la /srv/fileserver/software/
>> total 20
>> drwxrwxrwx 5 root             root                   4096 2009-12-31 
>> 12:12
>> .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root             root                   4096 2009-12-31 
>> 00:08
>> ..
>> drwxrwx--- 2 DOMAIN.EU+martin DOMAIN.EU+domain users 4096 2009-12-31 
>> 00:24
>> test2
>> drwxrwx--- 2 DOMAIN.EU+martin DOMAIN.EU+domain users 4096 2009-12-31 
>> 12:11
>> test3
>> drwxrwx--- 2 DOMAIN.EU+martin DOMAIN.EU+domain users 4096 2009-12-31 
>> 12:12
>> test4
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>
> I guess you are trying to do this with wedav. I've looked and have not 
> found
> a good Linux solution. To use Apache, you would have to write a listener
> that forks an Apache process as the user. That is expensive and there is 
> no
> pre-built solution out there. We finally gave up and used Windows 2008 
> with
> IIS 7 which can do this natively. We set-up a web site who's root is our
> samba share (we only have one share and specify all permissions through
> ACLs). This preserves permissions and owners so that quotas are not thrown
> off.
>
> We initially did some nasty group member things to get it to work with
> Apache, but the management overhead was a nightmare and went with the
> Windows solution even though we wanted to go Linux.
>
> Robert LeBlanc
> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
> Brigham Young University
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