Now that I have my Samba PDC up and running, I will soon be building a NAS for network file storage, backups and running virtual machines and tests. I need to make some shares on this machine that network users can access for file storage. I can either design it to be a Samba Domain Member and set up shares that would be authenticated via the PDC or I could simply mount the shares to the PDC via CIFS and let the users access them locally through the PDC. Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this? -- *Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/ *Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA 800.748.0423 Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228 Fax: 989.752.4444 www.glastender.com <http://www.glastender.com>
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
2007-Jan-19 13:42 UTC
[Samba] Domain Member Server or Mounted Shares?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2007 07:48 PM, Jason Baker escreveu:> Now that I have my Samba PDC up and running, I will soon be > building a NAS for network file storage, backups and running > virtual machines and tests. I need to make some shares on this > machine that network users can access for file storage. > > I can either design it to be a Samba Domain Member and set up > shares that would be authenticated via the PDC or I could > simply mount the shares to the PDC via CIFS and let the users > access them locally through the PDC. > > Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this?If you can have the NAS as a Domain Member, where you can define ACLs based on the PDC User List, IMHO, that should be the way to go. Samba and NAS will only exchange information about who is able to access and who isn't, instead of exchange the entire share, at least, that's the way I understand it, and by doing that, you would reduce the traffic in your local network. ;) Kind regards, - -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe@paranacidade.org.br> Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informa??o (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE http://www.paranacidade.org.br/ Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsMqsCj65ZxU4gPQRAuVUAJ41oWiYiY1di9Ft39FUgqROVVR4RwCeIwqL 261ULwQiAeuzHPlVTuONOGg=Bb92 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----