zfs discuss - Feb 2007 - Is there an "idiot''s guide" to creating network access for users?

I''m setting up a media server with ZFS, if I''m lucky... The
ACL part of the administration guide has made my head feel like it has inherited
the appendicitis I had two weeks ago... So is there a simpler guide somewhere?

I''ll explain what I want to do: I have a few different levels of users
in my house. The kids should only be allowed to access the children movies from
their computers. The HTPC should be allowed to read all files but not write. And
my home office computer should have full access, both read, write and delete. Is
this difficult?

Thanks in advance!
 
 
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On 2/24/07, Tor <mastiff at start.no> wrote:
> I''m setting up a media server with ZFS, if I''m lucky...
The ACL part of the administration guide has made my head feel like it has
inherited the appendicitis I had two weeks ago... So is there a simpler guide
somewhere?
Not that I have found :-)

It''s really not too bad though, just takes several rounds of
experimentation to get the basics.
> I''ll explain what I want to do: I have a few different levels of
users in my house. The kids should only be allowed to access the children movies
from their computers. The HTPC should be allowed to read all files but not
write. And my home office computer should have full access, both read, write and
delete. Is this difficult?
You could probably do this with regular unix permissions.  Set
everything to be owned by you, and group "media", writable only to you
but readable to "media".  Not world readable.  Then to give the kids
access (who are not in group "media") let that area be world readable.
 I don''t think you''d need real ACLs until you start adding
another
level of complexity or two..

What method do you plan to use to provide network access?  NFS?  Samba?

-- 
Eric Enright

Warning: You are now entering The Bad Joke Zone!!!
Well, I''m actually leaning more towards Linedance...
Thank you. You are now exiting The Bad Joke Zone.

Sorry, just had to get that one off my chest...sort of to conceal that I
haven''t got the foggiest idea. I didn''t even know that there
were different methods. I have downloaded the DVD image and I''m going
to start installing tomorrow morning. I suppose I can say with confidence that I
would prefer to use the easiest method available! :-) The thing is I
don''t really need anything more fancy than to be able to have user
groups where the groups can either only read, both read and write or none of the
above. Certain movies should only be accessible from the bedroom, for
instance... ;-) But then this is very basic, I suppose. So what method would you
recommend for this?

I know absolutely nothing about *Nix (isn''t that the correct lingo?)
yet, but I''m pretty good at learning as I go. I have an 80 gig drive
that I''m gonna use as a root drive (I think that''s what
it''s called), and I think my first ZFS experiments will be with a
partition on that, without risking my DVD/HD collection in the beginning. If
possible I will do the install with the drive connected to the PCI IDE card
since the first drive on that shows up as the first drive on the computer
(don''t know why, all other motherboards I used had this on before has
put the mobo IDE ports first). I''m so stupid I don''t yet know
if I''m gonna see a GUI when OpenSolaris is installed or only a command
line. But what I see doesn''t really matter, I will see and conquer! :-)

Tor
 
 
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Dang, I think I''m dead as far as Solaris goes. I checked the HCL and
the Java compatibility check, and none of the two controllers I would need to
use, one PCI IDE and one S-ATA on the KT-4 motherboard, will work with
OpenSolaris. Annoying as heck, but it looks like I''m gonna have to
stick with Windows. :-(

Tor
 
 
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