Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. I forgot to post docs for acl on centos5: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-acls.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070808/61f90b4a/attachment-0004.sig>