What I'm after is rather unusual, but no doubt quite handy in a wide
range of other situations. I want to be able to build a front-end to
a database through SMB file shares to Windows machines.
Here's my problem. I'm working on a document management strategy here
at my new work. Ideally it will fit in with peoples' current way of
working as closely as possible. Everyone (hopefully) understands the
heirarchy of a file system.
The problem with a simple heirarchical structure is its single
dimensional categorisation. You can decide that something is
Administration/HR/New PC policy. However it could also be relevent to
Departments/IT/. A simple way to do this is with symlinks but there's
no user-friendly way to do this that's consistent with the file system
interface -- don't even think about fscking Windows shortcuts.
So the way I'm thinking of doing it is to store everything in a
database with appropriate metadata attached to each file. The files
can be explored through a web interface or through a heirarchical file
system structure. To do this I need to be able to export it through
Samba.
Note this isn't a fully formed project, just an idealet. Feel free to
comment.
Now the specifics: is there some way to export things to Samba through
Perl? The only Perl modules matching "Samba" are smbclient front-ends
which isn't what I'm after.
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