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. -------------- 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/e67b51ac/attachment-0005.sig>