[olug] Update options

[Sam Tetherow]

Check out webdav. It is supported by Win2K's webfolder mounts and there 
are several opensource clients for win, *nix and mac check www.webdav.org

Phil Brutsche wrote:

> Craig Wolf wrote:
> > Ok folks, looking for ideas here.
> >
> > I have a Linux machine that will probably be taking over duties from
> > a botched Win2k transfer from a NetWare box of our District website.
> > I need a way, read very easy, for non-technical type teachers to
> > update specific pieces of a website. We are talking about Windoz
> > machines and Macintoshes as well. FTP is an option, smb is an
> > option, and appletalk is an option but I would like to be able to set
> > it up so that it is consistent across all platforms for updating.
>
> It's hard to make it a consistent interface for all platforms.
>
> Unless you have something like Microsoft's Web Folders on a Mac I 
> would go with samba+netatalk.
>
> > Ultimate goal would be to be able to setup the rights to a directory
> > to a Novell NDS user. I have apache authenticating to NDS through a
> > module but to do this with any other app, would I have to go trough
> > PAM and LDAP? Is any of this making sense? Are there options I
> > haven't considered?
>
> Isn't Novell's NDS basically just LDAP? If it is then pam_ldap will 
> work fine.
>
> Be aware that if you have to worry about Samba NDS may not be an 
> option. Or maybe the other way around :)
>
> Is the brokenness on the Win2k box something that's easy to fix?
>
>
> Phil
>
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