[Samba] samba and/or DAV

[Mike Ely]

Funny you should mention that.  I stumbled across a link to this page:
http://www.drijf.net/dototto/index.html
at /. recently.  If you follow the links, you will be able to build a WebDAV 
server on your apache box.  My initial experience with WebDAV was when I 
tried my quick trial .mac account with an OS X box.  I was astonished at the 
transfer rates - sustained at around 500+ kbps across at least two NOCs.  I'm 
currently trying the mock .mac hack that the website is about, but we've been 
considering using WebDAV for a while here - this may be the first step.  So 
far, my impression is that it's pretty darn nice.

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Mike Ely
Computer Support Specialist
Phoenix-Talent School District #4
Talent, OR

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 05:14 pm, pilsl at goldfisch.at wrote:
> while looking for a solution for webbased access to our samba-servers
> I found a recommendation towards using DAV instead.
>
> I just took a first glance at DAV (www.webdav.org) and find it very
> interesting.
>
> Are there any documentes comparing these two strategies in intranet
> and internet (speed, reliability ...)
>
> I would also be greatly interested if anyone here uses DAV to allow
> roaming users to access their server-files and is willing to share his
> experiences. I see a lot of troubles regarding some special and widely
> used features in samba that do not have a direct counterpart at DAV
> like valid users, force group ...  and then samba allows to map
> different directories under the same sharename for different users,
> which is also a very common feature in samba.
>
> WebDav seems as an alternative to VPN's and tools like smb2www-2 to
> me, cause its very easy to install and could be secured/maintained in
> well known apache-context (if one uses the apache-dav-modules)
>
>
> Thnx for all,
> peter

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