Re: [CentOS] Using Samba to share Apache web root, securely

On 8/9/2011 4:34 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:

You could make a separate samba share with different ownership.  At some
point it might make more sense to use a web-based content manager that
understands logins/permissions or perhaps a wiki that permits uploads
instead of randomly mapping file access around.

That will probably be the best option while we move these sites to a CMS. The users are accustomed to using Windows drive letters that are mapped by our AD to access their content, and I'd like to have to leave that intact for now.

I haven't looked closely at it for a while, but Alfresco claims to do both. http://www.alfresco.com/community/

That is, it can appear as a file share via jcifs while still layering its content management logic over the view/access in the same way the web server side does (and nfs, ftp, and webdav...).