I'd strongly suggest making it web-only, without the SMB side.
Reason being, no doubt at some time in the future the powers that be will
want to link it into their office in another country, and SMB will be pretty
slow (even on a VPN).
Also if it is web based it means you won't have to support the end users'
PCs anywhere near as much. Your IT Dept will love you for it as they won't
have to worry about setting file permissions for new users/groups/blah.
Even NT admins admit that SMB/CIFS is slow and bulky!
I use smbclient in an application (actually in sh, rather than PERL) but I
use it like FTP. That is, I just get the files I need (using cron) and work
on them with PERL on a local disk rather than through the temperamental SMB
interface.
Regards,
Jill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Foskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 23:05
> To: slug
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Samba hooks in Perl?
>
>
> Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
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