OT: what's the best Apache smb module?

Jason Haar Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz
Mon May 2 23:59:02 GMT 2005


Tim Potter wrote:

>Last time I looked at this (which was a while ago I admit) there was a
>problem linking (GPL licensed) Samba code with (Apache licensed) Apache
>code.  This is probably why there isn't a standard module that everyone
>uses.
>
>  
>

Ah - Licensing! That makes sense: I just couldn't figure out why this
wasn't easy...
What a bugger...

>There is also mod_ntlm_winbind which does useful things with
>authentication, user groups etc.  You need to be running winbindd on the
>same host you are running apache on for this to work though.
>  
>
Hmm - most of the Google links look broken - I found a CVS dir  - dated
2001 :-(

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