On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
SME server used to be pretty good at that sort of thing (small business server). You could just add users and put them in groups with the web interface and set up file shares by group. The ClearOS version might be more up to date, though. The old lanman authentication wouldn't be as secure as AD, though.
+1 to Les's comments.
@ OP - if you are not averse to switching distributions, then give Zentyal (www.zentyal.org) a try; it has Samba 4.1.5 IIRC and based on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS.
The Zentyal folks have done a good job on the Web UI so user/group and file share management is fairly straightforward.
Recently, I migrated a 50 node setup, a mix of CentOS desktops, Linux Storage (Debian), Windows 7 Pro, OS X, from a openLDAP+Samba3 PDC setup to Samba4 AD/DC.
Much as this group has helped you, you will have to do some homework (reading + experimentation) and bring yourself up to speed on Samba4. There is a lot of documentation http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/ and wiki.samba.org.
-- Arun Khan