Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS > box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single > LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap > storage in a single mount point). > > The next fun piece is how to incorporate that storage space into an > existing Active Directory structure to apply AD acls for limited > access. > > I'd rather not use Samba, as that is its own infrastructure and > maintains its own credentials database. > The answer to your AD question is Samba. It integrates into AD perfectly well. Search the Centos archives. samba.org has extensive info on the subject. -- tkb