[CentOS] SMB server with CentOS 4

Tue Dec 6 01:53:09 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:10 -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I need to set up a small server for a group of ~10 employees (all using 
> Windows 2000/XP, used to use a windows 2000/exchange setup).  I have a 
> linux server already running CentOS 4, so I'd like to do all I can with 
> this.  I thought about using Samba for file/print sharing and 
> OpenXchange (commercial version) to have a nice 
> collaborative/mail/calendar/etc server.  Of course, it would probably be 
> the dhcp and internal DNS server.
> 
> 	I started reading the Samba doc, but it is rather long.  I planned on 
> using this server as a PDC so that it is not too different from using 
> their former windows 2000 server.  I'll be managing this server, which 
> is currently a staging server for web development (php/mysql/cvs).
> 
> Anyone has a opinion on this, or better ideas?  My backups will be based 
> on utilities and mondorescue, kept on a internal (cold-swap drawer) 
> hard-drive that I would take every week (2-drawers rotation).
> 
> Any recommendations welcome,  will provide more details if needed.

As far as samba goes, I would recommend that you set up Samba and LDAP
using idealx smbldap-tools.

We have been using these for about 2 years in our company ... seems to
work well.

http://www.majen.net/smbldap/Samba-LDAP_smbldap-installer-1_2.html

Lots of good info in the above link.
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