Samba-Apache-Webdav permission problem with user www-data
I'm not sure if this should be in the newbie section, but I am somewhat of a newbie, so here goes:
In a home network, I have an Xubuntu file server with a Samba share that has me as the owner and authorizes me to access the share.
On another computer, I have Mint running and providing various services, including webdav on Apache with SSL. In the var/www/webdav directory of the Mint computer, I have the Xubuntu Samba share mounted. This is supposed to allow me to access the Samba share from the public internet.
Everything works fine except for one big problem: Apache requires the owner of the webdav directory to be user "www-data," and I can't figure out how to give www-data access to the Samba share, since www-data is not a user on the Xubuntu computer, and moreover I don't know the password for user www-data.
Can anyone figure out how to get around this problem? In particular, is there a way to configure the Samba share on the Xubuntu computer so that user www-data on the Mint computer can have access to it?
(Incidentally, I have my reasons for using two computers, one as a file server and one as a web server. Also, I am thinking about switching to NFS instead of Samba, but I'm not sure if even that would solve my problem.)
Last edited by dilettante9; 06-02-2015 at 02:59 PM.
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