Use Apache as an HTTP proxy for SMB/CIFS links (Bonus points for Synology solution)

Question

Am I doing this right? Situation:

• a file server (FILE_SERVER) containing a share with a bunch of documents.
  • users can access files on the share either with
    • afp://FILE_SERVER/SHARE/path/to/doc
    • \\FILE_SERVER\SHARE\path\to\doc
• users want to send links to these files via email
• users want to post links to these files in a wiki (TWiki)
• I have an Apache Server to muck around with (running on a Synology DS2011+)

Problem is: There is no canonical way to link to files that works on all combinations of (osx, windows) x (chrome, safari, ie, firefox).

Solution? I'd like to configure the apache server to serve these documents, if they are presented in a nice form. Something like:

`http://WEB_SERVER/SHARE/path/to/doc`

I am able to mount the SMB share as a folder on the Synology server if that helps, but I'm a little worried about security here.

Questions:

• should I just mount the share and serve it up? how? (I'm getting a 403, which checks out, since the user is admin, uh, I'm in for trouble here...)
• How to provide authorization?
  • I'd like users to have to provide the same credentials they would use if they were connecting to the network drive in Windows Explorer / Finder