Samba Web Interface

[Bradley Hook]

As Billy implies, you don't need to worry about samba if you are trying 
to do it over the web. Samba is a server with its own set of 
communication protocols, and Apache is a server with a different set of 
protocols. Since you want to do this over the web (http), then by virtue 
of that fact you wont be using Samba to do it.

If want to do it through samba because of the permissions you have on 
your samba shares, then you are making a lot of work for nothing. Both 
Samba and Apache, by default, rely heavily on the underlying filesystem 
for permissions and security, and if your filesystem permissions don't 
match your samba share permissions then you aren't following best practices.

If it is just for you to use, and you don't have bunches of users to 
worry about, then consider the File Manager in webmin. This requires a 
java applet to be installed (automatically) on the client, but it 
provides full GUI access to the server's filesystem over HTTPS. 
Alternatively, the "Upload and Download" feature in webmin is 
html/javascript based, and gives you slightly less convenient access to 
your filesystem.

~Bradley

Billy Crook wrote:
> Is there a specific reason your uploading of files to your home server
> has to have anything to do with samba?
> 
> If you could use a web site interface to uploading and managing files
> on a webserver, try http://webfilebrowser.sourceforge.net/ and
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pfb/.  Of course, you will probably want
> to set up ssl, and offer those services exclusively over SSL.
> 
> If it doesn't even have to be 'web', use scp, an sftp client like
> filezilla, or fuse-sshfs.  you could actually use Samba right over the
> net, but it is usually blocked, and isn't very smart for security
> reasons.  In the one instance I do regularly use CIFS over the net, I
> encapsulate it in an OpenVPN tunnel, and do not depend on samba's
> security at all.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 19:03, Mark Gardner <markgard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a decent web interface to a samba file system.  I would
>> like to be able to securely upload files to my home server via a web
>> interface.
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