Accessing intranet site files

[benbeneke]

Hi All,

I have inherited a redhat 7.1 server in a new job. This server runs apache amongst other things, and hosts our intranet site in the /var/

http://www/html/intranet

directory.

I have the root login and need to be able to setup access to the intranet site files via a windows 98 and NT4 machines to allow them to be updated.

I tried to setup access via the smb.conf file and was partially successful, I can see the files and folders via windows but I cannot open or edit them.

I need to setup access for 3 people including myself who can modify, delete and create files while at the same time making sure that the intranet site stays up.

Would I be better off downloading these files to another area for offline editing and then uploading?

or

Setting up access for the 3 of us to these files directly?

Now the crunch - how would i go about doing it?

Hope you guys can help.

Many thanks

Ben

 

[danielhozac]

This really doesn't have much to do with Apache, but if I were you, I'd set up an FTP server instead of SAMBA. It's both easier and gives you access to the extremely valuable [tt]chmod[/tt] command. //Daniel

 

[benbeneke]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the pointer. How difficult is it to set up an ftp server on this linux box?

Ben

 

[Morsing]

Did you set up the smbpasswd file??

FTP should work out-of-the box. What happens if you FTP to it??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[benbeneke]

Morsing,

That sounds promising and no I haven't set up the smbpasswd file.
I am using midnight commander to navigate around the server and the F4 edit button to edit files.
Can I setup up that file this way or is there a better way? Linuxconf maybe?
It's my first time with Linux so I am being extremely cautious as I cannot have this system fail!
I tried FTP useing LeechFTP but the connection failed!

Many thanks Guys