howdie~
So I've been noodling with my linux machine (SuSE) for a few months now. I've managed to get samba, apache and qmail all working. I'm pretty happy so far. I want to beef up the security to my website though.
As it stands now, I have a link on my site which points to a samba share drive on a seperate windows machine. This drive contains all my music. The problem is, anyone who comes to my site can click this link and see/copy all of the files ala http. I'd really like a user/password dialog to popup whenever someone tries to get at my files.
I'm thinking a perl script(?), but I'm totally clueless as to how to write it, where to put it, and how to incorporate it into a hyperlink.
Or is perl even the 'best way' to do it? I wnat to try to get it to be as secure as possible without a) a client like ssh or ftp. b) streaming, I want to be able to copy the file to wherever I am. c) buying a new piece of hardware.