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I take all this back. I just think it is a limitation of some small snippet of both server and client code... On 3/6/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]> wrote: > From my understanding of Apache, it appears that your request would be > intercepted if you had the right config options and return the > contents of an index page. However, smb is not a protocol for showing > the contents of files. You make a request for a file list and you get > it back. I don't believe samba has code to open a file and dump it to > your browser for parsing. Also, while using a smb client, even a > browser shell, the app might not handle such a case when it is using > smb://. I have been wronf before though so feel free to educate me! > It just seems that the two services offer dissimilar features; one > serves files and the other serves directory listings which can then be > selected for download. Apache just happens to have a feature to show > directory listings. Hrmmm, b ut you never know. I suppose it is > possible... > > > > On 3/6/08, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: > > I'm using Samba to export a number of Linux directories locally. > > However, when I open those directories in the browser, I get a > > directory, as expected. Is there a way I can configure it such that the > > browser brings up the index page? Alternatively, I could achieve what I > > want by running Apache, but I don't want to do that. > > > > -- > > -- > > Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> > > Boston Linux and Unix > > PGP key id: 537C5846 > > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > Kristian Erik Hermansen > -- > "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an > intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing > gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and > difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious > watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or > failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to > Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 >
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