[CentOS] SMB server with CentOS 4

Tue Dec 6 01:23:23 UTC 2005
Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>

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.
>
> TIA,

There's a well-written tutorial at 
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/tutorials/samba/ -- not 
necessarily for the latest version of Samba, but thorough nonetheless.