[CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

Ted Miller
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:09:39 -0000

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Ted Miller wrote:
>> Is there a file system + configuration that will let me share a
>> directory, and anyone who has access to something in that directory on
>> the server will also have access (and lack of access) to the same
>> files from the client? Clients will be Centos5, Win2K, WinXP.  Server
>> is Centos5.
>>
>> To put it another way, all users have accounts on the server.  I
don't
>> want to have to set up ANY user information on the server, other than
>> what I set up to control local access.  I just want to say "Share
>> /vmware" and have it available, to the same users who can access
it
>> locally.
>>
>> With Samba I have to maintain duplicate user lists, password lists,
>> and share access lists.  I have not been able to find a clear
>> instructions on how NFS4 handles this, but what I found didn't seem
>> any better than Samba.
>>
>> I don't mind implementing ACLs on the server if it will do what I
>> need, but I can't find anything that says it will save me any work
>> either.
>
> Well, since you want to set up shares ... and since you want to share
> between Windows and Linux machines, and to share for windows you will
> need to use samba.
>
> Since you can also set up linux to use a samba client, that would
> probably be the best method to "share these files" ... if you
expect to
> just oepn them via a file manager on all platforms.

Is there a way to set up samba so that it "just uses" ACL information
for
permissions, instead of having to spell everything out for each share and
each user?

Ted Miller