[BUGS] x11 & window managers & admin tools

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 13/12/2007, at 9:32 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:56:47AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:51:35AM +1100, Glenn wrote:
>>> If the bsd box will be administored from a widows desktop you  
>>> will have
>>> to install an xserver and window manager on windows. You will be  
>>> limited by
>>
>> Or an vncserver or an rdpserver on the unix host.
>
> The other possibility (perhaps: I don't use it myself) is a
> web-based GUI.  I believe that there are several such admin
> tools available in ports, and it means that you don't have to
> install or configure X of any flavour.  (You probably do have to
> install Apache, but you probably have that already, if it's a
> server box...)

I was looking at the Samba web admin today, I forget what it's  
called, something with 4 letters.. Anyway it seemed more complicated  
and harder to use than just editing the conf file directly if you ask  
me! I couldn't find how to set a share level password anywhere in it  
and after putting allowed users to write to a share and applying, the  
option to put who can write no longer shows up in basic mode, only  
advanced.. In other words it's horrible!

The most redeeming feature is that each option has a link to  
documentation about what that option is for, which is nice, but I  
can't see how you would configure Samba entirely using the web based  
interface, you still need to create unix users and groups and set the  
owner and group on the files. I would have thought that should all be  
part of the web interface to it..

So yes, I was planning on trying to make an 'admin' page that linked  
to the various web admin tools, but if I have trouble using them...