[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

Tue Dec 6 14:11:55 UTC 2005
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 05:31, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
>>Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>
>>>>>Open Filer?  I haven't used it but it's based on CentOS:
>>>>>www.openfiler.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately, it doesn't provide the
>>>>authentication/authorization aspect that he needs.  He'd need
>>>>a 2nd server for that.
>>>
>>>
>>>This looks like an interesting project.  The problem with it is that it 
>>>is a whole distro, so I can't have auth on the same server?
>>
>>nothing stopping you from actually ssh'ing in and setting up openldap if 
>>you like.. on the same box. But the gui frontend for openfiler, at this 
>>stage, will not help you with the process.
> 
> 
> It would be a great addition to that project though.  Or to 
> the Centos-based SMEserver if you add NFS too.  Then you could
> build one box where you add users and get home directories
> and use any number of other Linux or windows workstations
> where anyone could log in with network authentication and
> have his home directory auto-mounted.
> 

NFS support has been in OpenFiler as long as I can remember.

As is ftp, webdav and smb.