[CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?

[Johnny Hughes]

Ken Sedlacek wrote:
> I am an experienced MS administrator of W2003 servers & Exchange systems.
> 
> I have 5+ years UNIX mid-level experience but not in centOS. Grounded in SCO UNIX (the real SCO UNIX).
> 
> We want to use CentOS on a recently grave yarded Dell poweredge 400SC server.
> 
> This is a P4 3.0 Ghz, w/4GB memory, 2 SATA 250 GB disks.
> 
> We want to use this server w/CentOS5, to provide file and print resources to 100 users.
> 
> Each Department wants control over common folders of info for only their group.
> 
> Each user wants control over their folders.
> 
> Pretty much standard permissions for departments.
> 
> Is this do-able with the server and centOS5 and 100 users?

You can certainly do this with CentOS-5.

You will want to install samba and join the server to your Active
Directory domain ... here is a guide that works:

http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode

(skip the part that has you download new samba RPMS from samba.org ...
the centOS 5 RPMS work OK for ADS ... you will want to use winbind)

You will most likely want to make sure that you have ACL support for
CentOS-5 and you will want to edit the /etc/fstab and change your shared
folder to have ACL support.  Here is an article on ACLs for centos:

http://techxworld.com/community/blogs/features/archive/2007/05/21/acls-on-samba.aspx

To do this, you should ensure that you have created a separate
partition/mount for the file shares.  I usually do this in /home/samba/
for public shared items  and /home/<DOMAIN>/ for the users home
directories ... and I usually have home as a separate mount ... like this:

/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults,acl 0 0

You will need to be able to use the getfacl and setfacl commands to
setup initial permissions.



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