Thank you for your replies. I have samba because i have windows machine running as well. Why i am doing all of this is because i don't want to implement vpn ! To hard to configure for a guy like me ! Franck On 11/30/05, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) <stymar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ementation > > > > > > Fellows members, > > I 'll try to explain my problem clearly. > > > > I have two computer. > > The first one is called : titanic > > The second one: databse > > > > Database has some files/folders who are located in /home/documents. > > Apache is not installed one this one but Samba is and it's > > working properly. > > > > > > Titanic as apache installed and running. > > > > What i want is when one one my client will connect to titanic it's > > show the folder /home/documents in databse . And the client will be > > able to browse the folder and dowload the file if he want to. But i > > don't want apache runnig on atabse due to security reason... > > > > > > Do you have any idea how i can implement this thing ? > > > Assuming both machine are running Linux, using NFS instead of Samba > would be an advantage. You would mount /home/documents on the titanic > machine and to apache, they would appear as local files available for > serving. It would further simplify things if you did the mount in in > directory structure from which your apache server serves. > > The exportfs command can be used on databse to export the files. You will > also want to update /etc/exports. There are man pages for exportfs and exports > which have the details. > > Sample: > cat /etc/exports > /herc *.mydomain.com(rw,sync,insecure) > /home/documents *.mydomain.com(rw,sync,insecure) > # (your options may vary) > > On the apache server, you can use the mount command to do the mount. > > mount -t nfs titanic:/home/documents /var/www/html/databse > > (/var/www/html/databse must exist and be a directory) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Samba is used for sharing files between Windows machines and Unix > machines. If titanic was a Windows machine and databse was a Linux > box, you would use samba to map /home/documents on databse to a > drive letter on titanic. > > If the reverse was true, you would use samba to mount the share on > databse with a command like: > > mount -t smbfs -o username=yourid,password=yourpass,workgroup=yourworkgroup //databse/C /var/www/html/databse > > Bob Styma > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Franck
