Hello again, At this school I am working we are setting up a wireless network. What would be the best way to set up the system to this network? How should we log in to Samba? What should I consider. The wireless system has already been purchased by people who have left. Kind regards Anna-Karin
On 12/14/2011 02:06 PM, Anna-Karin.Burman at bjurholm.se wrote:> Hello again, > > At this school I am working we are setting up a wireless network. What would be the best way to set up the system to this network? How should we log in to Samba? What should I consider. The wireless system has already been purchased by people who have left.?? It's the same with a wired network.> Kind regards > Anna-Karin-- Raffael Sahli public at raffaelsahli.com Switzerland
Hi Anna-Karin, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Anna-Karin.Burman at bjurholm.se wrote:> Hello again, > > At this school I am working we are setting up a wireless network. What would > be the best way to set up the system to this network? How should we log in > to Samba? What should I consider. The wireless system has already been > purchased by people who have left.A wireless network is not conceptually different from a wired (Ethernet) network on and above Layer 3. One thing that you have to keep in mind is that a wireless network always uses a shared medium (air), so (in theory) any client on the net can listen to each other client's traffic while that data is in flight. That may be a problem when dealing with unencrypted data in that network. Just using a pre-shared key to secure the WiFi network by means of WPA or WPA2 is not enough, as all the clients who share that secret will be able to receive the traffic in the clear - it's a little less secure than a switched Ethernet network in full duplex mode, so to say. Other than that, there's no difference from setting up CIFS/Samba on a wired or a wireless network that should be of concern to you. -- with best regards: - Johannes Truschnigg ( johannes at truschnigg.info ) www: http://johannes.truschnigg.info/ phone: +43 650 2 133337 xmpp: johannes at truschnigg.info Please do not bother me with HTML-eMail or attachments. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20111214/1933fce2/attachment.pgp>
We have multiple wireless VLANs. a guest wireless that only allows web browsing and e-mail to off-campus servers, a student wireless network that allows access to student resources, and an administrative wireless network that allows access to the administrative (business process) resources. the student and administrative wireless networks are enterprise WPA2 secured, with users' university ID login credentials. To allow samba access from the wireless networks, you need to make sure that your firewall is passing ports [TCP|UDP]/135, UDP/137, UDP/138, TCP/139 and TCP/445 or at least TCP/445. ---------------------------------------------- Tony Hoover, Network Administrator KSU - Salina, College of Technology and Aviation (785) 826-2660 "Don't Blend in..." ---------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Anna-Karin.Burman at bjurholm.se Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:07 AM To: samba at lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] wireless Hello again, At this school I am working we are setting up a wireless network. What would be the best way to set up the system to this network? How should we log in to Samba? What should I consider. The wireless system has already been purchased by people who have left. Kind regards Anna-Karin -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Il 14/12/2011 14:06, Anna-Karin.Burman at bjurholm.se ha scritto:> At this school I am working we are setting up a wireless network. > What would be the best way to set up the system to this network? How > should we log in to Samba? What should I consider. The wireless > system has already been purchased by people who have left.If those APs support WPA2-Enterprise, just setup a FreeRadius server to use ntlm_auth for authenticating users. What do you mean exactly with "log in to Samba"? Do you have a print server? a file server? a mail server? a web server? Every kind of server requires its own auth... but it could be "not too hard" to make a SSO (single-sign-on) system, so that the user only gives his credentials once for the whole session. BYtE, Diego.