Serving data from a script

[Anders C. Thorsen]

Look at lists.samba.org

--Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: Harding Richard [mailto:Richard.Harding at icl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:28 PM
To: 'acthorsen at students.wisc.edu'
Subject: RE: Serving data from a script



Please can you tell me how to de-subscribe from this user group

thanks a lot

Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: Anders C. Thorsen [mailto:acthorsen at students.wisc.edu]
Sent: 09 January 2001 14:43
To: harakan at btinternet.com; samba at us5.samba.org
Cc: samba-technical at us5.samba.org
Subject: RE: Serving data from a script


did you look at the samba VFS?

some c programming with that and i.e. the database API (such as mysql++)
should do the trick.

--Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org
[mailto:samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of
harakan at btinternet.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:44 PM
To: samba at us5.samba.org
Cc: samba-technical at us5.samba.org
Subject: Serving data from a script


Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has done any investigations 
into how to serve data to Samba via a script/application, 
rather than directly from the file system? Or a way to 
map a script into the file system?

Basically, I have an Intranet site (hosted on RH6.2) that 
builds a virtual directory structure from a database, so 
you can access 
http://servername/file/virtual/path/to/file.ext, and the 
access rights, file version, etc. are derived from the 
database. I want users to be able to have read-only 
access to the same files from NT boxes via Samba, but 
still using the database for access control/versioning.

I've looked at extending the source code to support this 
as another type (as with printers), but I can't distinguish 
between local filesystem access for Samba versus local 
filesystem access for client file requests. Of course, I'd 
prefer to be able to support this using a virtual-FS so I 
don't have to change Samba, but I've been unable to 
find any tools that will do it...


Any hints or suggestions much appreciated,

Chris.