Re: Which Operating-System do you use for Nutch

[Dennis Kubes <nu...@dragonflymc.com>]

Fedora Core 5 minimal install with Java 1.5.10

Tomi NA wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Jim Wilson <wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd do it, but I'm too busy being consumed with worries about the 
>> lack of
>> support for HTTP/NTLM credentials and SMB fileshare indexing.
>>
>> Arrrgg - tis another sad day in the life of this pirate.
>
> We seem to share the same problems...they haven't gone and knocked me
> down...yet, but I expect they might fairly soon.
> For now, I'm placing the shares under an IIS umbrella: I direct the
> crawl to the root of the web and serve http links to the files. IIS
> (somehow) takes care of A/D authorization: once the user clicks on a
> link, IIS checks the users credentials and matches it to the files ACL
> (I suppose). The downsides? Even though I could theoretically allow
> the users with sufficient privileges to write files, I can only
> provide WebDAV access. Whats more, I'm stuck with
> IIS/Windows/whatever. I'd much rather let the customer decide what he
> wants to run on his servers. Finally, distributed network shares (i.e.
> shares not shared from the server) make the problem/solution
> significantly more complicated.
> Alternatively, you could try with the file protocol, generating
> "browser unfriendly" file:// links, opens up it's own Pandora's box of
> security issues...so, how do you go about it?
>
> t.n.a.