Synchronizing public web server and samba

[John McDermott <jjm () jkintl com>]

I have what cannot be too unusual a situation, but I cannot seem to find 
the "best" solution.  I have an internal network behind a firewall and 
on that network is a Samba server acting as a PDC for a group of 
workstations. In a classic DMZ outside the firewall behind the router is 
a web server.  The users on the Samba server waant to have individual 
areas on the www server to post content.  I can do the Apache work no 
problem.
What I want is to make it as easy for them to publish as possible, while 
minimizing the administration and trying to have good security as this 
is a school.
I've considered scp and ssh, but that requires duplicating the accounts 
and quotas on the web server.  That's doable, but hard to automate, 
AFAIK.  If the web server were 100% for internal use, I'd just automount 
the student directories and share out each one's http-public or 
whatever. The problem is that I don't necessarily trust file sharing 
through a fw.

Any ideas?
--john
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John McDermott
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