Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

Scott Ehrlich wrote:

I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point).

The next fun piece is how to incorporate that storage space into an existing Active Directory structure to apply AD acls for limited access.

I'd rather not use Samba, as that is its own infrastructure and maintains its own credentials database.

The answer to your AD question is Samba. It integrates into AD perfectly well. Search the Centos archives. samba.org has extensive info on the subject.