Hello, I have a pdc with shared homes and roaming profiles. I would like to put the homes share in openfiler (a samba/san appliance). Is it possible? I am asking because I am failing to do it. Thanks in advance for any reply! Mario
Hello, I have a pdc with shared homes and roaming profiles. I would like to put the homes share in openfiler (a samba/san appliance). Is it possible? I am asking because I am failing to do it. Thanks in advance for any reply!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Mario Giammarco <mgiammarco@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > I have a pdc with shared homes and roaming profiles. I would like to put the > homes share in openfiler (a samba/san appliance). > > Is it possible? I am asking because I am failing to do it. >We do that (and have that in place for 5 or so years). No data exists on the pdc. The nice thing about that is with this setup we can make a new PDC/BDC in less than 5 minutes and install it on one of our openvz or xen hosts. We do have the profiles folder mounted under nfs to the PDC and our ldap configuration each users profile is specified with the server name of the machine with the user shares. John
2009/1/9 John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>> > We do that (and have that in place for 5 or so years). No data exists > on the pdc. The nice thing about that is with this setup we can make a > new PDC/BDC in less than 5 minutes and install it on one of our openvz > or xen hosts. We do have the profiles folder mounted under nfs to the > PDC and our ldap configuration each users profile is specified with > the server name of the machine with the user shares. >So you are "cheating": in the PDC samba conf you say that "homes" and "profiles" are in a directory of the PDC, but the directory is not phisically there, it is a nfs mount on another server right? Very good idea anyway! I do not understand the part about the ldap configuration, can you please explain it better: what can you do with ldap?? Thanks you very much!!!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mario Giammarco <mgiammarco@gmail.com> wrote:> > > 2009/1/9 John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> >> >> We do that (and have that in place for 5 or so years). No data exists >> on the pdc. The nice thing about that is with this setup we can make a >> new PDC/BDC in less than 5 minutes and install it on one of our openvz >> or xen hosts. We do have the profiles folder mounted under nfs to the >> PDC and our ldap configuration each users profile is specified with >> the server name of the machine with the user shares. > > So you are "cheating": in the PDC samba conf you say that "homes" and > "profiles" are in a directory of the PDC, but the directory is not > phisically there, it is a nfs mount on another server right? Very good idea > anyway! > > I do not understand the part about the ldap configuration, can you please > explain it better: what can you do with ldap?? >If you are not using LDAP for your password security I would not bother then. You can still make your profiles folder on a second server in your smb.conf. [Profiles] path = /home/%U/%U.pds browseable = no guest ok = yes profile acls = yes # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/netlogon readonly = yes browseable = yes Here I have the regular /home which is an nfs mount but you could instead specify a UNC path. I know I tested this in the past. I would activate and test this now but I have a meeting in 30 minutes and so its not good to make any changes with no one running the store... Also all other shares (user public and private + several dfs mounts) are mapped with my login script to the appropriate servers. John
Ah ok you can use UNC on PDC. I failed because I tried to not put at all any profiles or homes directive in pdc and I put them in the other samba. I will use ldap because I am already using it for unix accounts and so I need for samba. I was interested because reading your post it seems that you can put some info in ldap to change behaviour of samba differently for each user. Many thanks again! 2009/1/9 John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mario Giammarco <mgiammarco@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > 2009/1/9 John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> > >> > >> We do that (and have that in place for 5 or so years). No data exists > >> on the pdc. The nice thing about that is with this setup we can make a > >> new PDC/BDC in less than 5 minutes and install it on one of our openvz > >> or xen hosts. We do have the profiles folder mounted under nfs to the > >> PDC and our ldap configuration each users profile is specified with > >> the server name of the machine with the user shares. > > > > So you are "cheating": in the PDC samba conf you say that "homes" and > > "profiles" are in a directory of the PDC, but the directory is not > > phisically there, it is a nfs mount on another server right? Very good > idea > > anyway! > > > > I do not understand the part about the ldap configuration, can you please > > explain it better: what can you do with ldap?? > > > If you are not using LDAP for your password security I would not > bother then. You can still make your profiles folder on a second > server in your smb.conf. > > [Profiles] > path = /home/%U/%U.pds > browseable = no > guest ok = yes > profile acls = yes > > # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain > Logons > [netlogon] > comment = Network Logon Service > path = /home/netlogon > readonly = yes > browseable = yes > > Here I have the regular /home which is an nfs mount but you could > instead specify a UNC path. I know I tested this in the past. I would > activate and test this now but I have a meeting in 30 minutes and so > its not good to make any changes with no one running the store... Also > all other shares (user public and private + several dfs mounts) are > mapped with my login script to the appropriate servers. > > John >
2009/1/9 John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>> > > [Profiles] > path = /home/%U/%U.pds > browseable = no > guest ok = yes > profile acls = yes > > # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain > Logons > [netlogon] > comment = Network Logon Service > path = /home/netlogon > readonly = yes > browseable = yes > > Here I have the regular /home which is an nfs mount but you could > instead specify a UNC path. I know I tested this in the past.I am trying to use UNC but I am failing miserably... can I receive some help please? I am too much of a newbie in windows world :-(