Samba and web pages

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:03:22 -0500
   From: MBR <mbr at arlsoft.com>

   Assuming I understand you correctly, you're just typing a directory path 
   into your browser's address bar, and you'd like some server along the 
   way to do the right magic so the index page is returned to the browser.  
   I don't believe this is possible.  Here's why.

I think that what Jerry's asking for is that if you browse a directory
that contains an index.html file that the browser open that file
rather than provide a directory listing.

For example, if there is a file /home/rlk/index.html, and I type

file:///home/rlk

into the browser, the browser should actually provide
/home/rlk/index.html.

This doesn't need any server involvement or anything.  Whatever the
merits or otherwise of this, it's something a browser could do on its own.

   Jerry Feldman 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. 

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