Re: Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?

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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



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