Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:19:34 +0000 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> To: Lloyd Casafranca <lloyd@stream.net.ph> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I love FreeBSD Message-ID: <3777A096.EA50F8F0@csl.com> References: <001301bebf8b$6e114ee0$b792a9d0@arriane.stream.net.ph>
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Lloyd Casafranca wrote: > > uhh how do i make my FreeBSD webserver (apache) > visible to dreamweaver under an NT box, or better yet, > > how do i share directories in UNIX so i can just copy > from NT to UNIX my html files... Funnily enough I have users creating content using Dreamweaver that they need to publish to internal web servers from local disk. I suggest you set up SAMBA on the target apache server, and set up the directories which hold your HTML as SAMBA shares. That way, your apache web server will look like a "normal" Windoze box. Then, in dreamweaver, define the sites so that the "Server Access" part of the site description to "local/network", and make that one of the SAMBA shares you just set up. If you're new to SAMBA, I recommend you set up SWAT as well, which is a web-based interface for SAMBA configuration, but _please_ read the documentation on SAMBA first - at least two of the problems you will want to overcome are: o case matching in file name problems - because of a little bit of brain deadness in Dreamweaver, there is a tendency to use the nasty proper-casing of windoze file and directory names. The best thing to do is to go for mixed case file names. preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes case sensitive = no mangle case = no seems to work for me - but that means in your apache.conf you'll have to do things like DirectoryIndex index.htm, index.html, Index.htm, Index,html <sigh> o authentication by password between the UNIX SAMBA box and the various Wintel boxes - see the documentation for the files NT4_PlainPassword.reg and Win95_PlainPassword.reg (which are registry patches to enable plain-text passwords). o also, to make sure that the server has permission to read all the files deposited by your users, you can use the force user = nobody option when defining your HTML shares. Oh, and don't worry if even text files end up with the executable bits set, this is "normal". Cheers, Adam. > thanx in advance, does anyone know of any > documents on basic UNIX especially for > bequiners like me Try the section on UNIX tutorials at http://www.yahoo.com/ first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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