On 07/11/13 12:29, Fernando Lozano wrote:
Hi,
what about the samba running on your NAS. I did a lot of NAS hacking
pointing a running samba/winbind config of the vendor to my nt-style
samba/ldap domain .
But if you do so be aware you are loosing your support :-).
So if you can change the samba on your NAS you are up and running.
I don't have the NAS box yet. I wish advice on which one to buy based
on compatibility with a Samba 3 PDC (or Samba 4 DC, or IPA).
Vendors I talked to tell me it won't work, I'd have to use Microsoft
AD. Knowing the Linux and Windows side (protocols, software) this
doesn't make sense to me, I'm guessing the sales people I talked to
simply doesn't know and doesn't want to learn.
And it's not easy to tell the boss I'll buy a somewhat expensive box
(for a small business) just to hack and see if it'll work the way I
want. :-(
It would help if you simply tell me which NAS you had success and
which one was easier, out-of-the-box, or had to hack.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
It seems common that vendors (esp the sales guys) assume you are running
Windows 200x and AD. I think the logic is that "none of our customers
use linux so we won't support it." It becomes self-fulfilling when
anyone wanting something besides the basic Windows AD support looks for
other solutions.
Getting samba to work sometimes requires fiddling with protocol
versions, WINS and DNS. For example windows 7 won't work with Samba
3.x until you tweek the registry. You can probably put together a
price-comparable equivalent of the Buffalo using a white-box PC tower
and linux. You can even set up software raid. It is more likely
to work the way you want than a NAS box.
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