[luau] Linux Project for HNLC...?

[yuser at hi.net]

Share out a directory on the Windows machine.  Mount this share on the 
Linux side somewhere under your www docs root directory (using smbmount or 
mount -t smbfs).

I personally would not mount the www doc root directly to the 
mounted machine but would link a subdirectory under it to 
/mnt/something or directly somewhere under the root.

I assume you want easy access to the doc root directory via the windows 
machine and do not want to keep uploading files back and forth to the 
Apache machine.  The easiest way to do that would be the reverse of what 
you asked for.  Use Samba on the Apache machine and share out your www doc 
root and connect to it from the win machine, then save your html files 
directly to the apache machine.

A typical www share in the smb.conf would look like this:

[www]
        comment = risc-www
        path = /var/www
        valid users = yuser
        admin users = yuser
        writeable = Yes
        create mask = 0755

The valid users and admin users parameters allow only myself (yuser) to 
connect to this share and actions I do on the share will be as root on the 
server end.  Your file mask and need for root on the server end may be 
different.

I use the above example now and also share each users 
home
directory and it works great (path = /home/%u so they can see and modify 
their own pages from Windows and save to their own public_html directory.)

  

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Noli wrote:

> Is there a way to direct a linux computer running Apache to route http hits 
> to a Windows directory holding html docs?  Maybe a virtual host directing to 
> a local pc within a LAN (running NAT) so as to easily create web pages in 
> Windows?
>