With Samba 3.x (I think it was samba 3.4.x when we started deploying
Windows 7) I found that offline folders on Windows 7 broke offline
authentication.
On 07/12/13 02:43, Jim Potter wrote:
I use a Netgear readynas1500 as a fileserver for my Samba3/ldap domain
which I' ve just upgraded to AD and it works fine in both cases (lots
of users, though with relatively few active connections). It runs a
bog standard Samba3 + winbind member server (NT or ADS) as far as I
can tell.
Having said that, the 2 shortcomings I have found are with windows 7
clients... troubles doing offline files (there are bunch of tweaks,
but none work perfectly) and it doesnt work too well with the
libraries feature in win7 (it needs indexing o some sort that isn't
povided by samba I think)
BTW, would a Samba4 member server setup help with these issues? If it
did, I'd upgrade even if it did invaidate warranty...
cheers
Jim
On 11/07/2013 05:03, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote:
Hi Cris,
Hi there, Has anyone tried to configure a NAS server to authenticate
users using a Samba PDC, or even a Samba4 DC (AD-compatible) or an IPA
server?
not in a while, but I have done a samba 3 DC
This was not my question. I'm ok running samba 3 DCs. :-)
Have you ever configured a NAS so it would authenticate users from
your Samba DC and them serve SMB file shares (aka network drives) to
Windows desktops?
I'm evaluating replacing some Linux file server for a NAS product, but
all them make me nervous when the vendor talks about "Active Directory
support" and nothing else.
if 3rd party support is your concern, why are you using fedora
instead of
RHEL?
Are you trying to sell me RHEL subscriptions or help me with my
question? ;-) Anything wrong about asking about Fedora on a Fedora
list, or any server issue is forbidden for Fedora users? ;-)
AFAIK it shouldn't matter, from a technical perspective, if the samba
DC runs Fedora, Debian, Slackware, RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu, Solaris,
whatever. I am not talking about OS level FC drivers or iSCSI
initiators. Either a NAS will be compatible with Samba3, Samba4, both
or neither. This depends on the SMB and MSRPC features needed by the
NAS, all them application level protocols, not kernel modules. If
I'll need Red Hat support for managing this system is another,
unrelated, question.
If the NAS vendors state they suṕport RHEL, that's not que question
either, as supporting RHEL could mean the RHEL linux kernel smbfs and
cifsfs driver talks to the NAS, not the NAS talks to the Samba DC. Or
else, RHEL support may mean just that the NAS talks NFS and so a RHEL
machine can mount volumes from tne NAS. That's not what I want.
Most times I see linux servers they are simply members of a MSAD
domain, not the DC themselves. But mine are. All vendors I talked to
assume MSAD, and don't know about Samba. :-(
Anyway Fedora is my desktop system and development workstation. The
DC in question runs RHEL. But if this works I can try someday using
Fedora or CentOS with the same (or other) NAS.
In theory, many NASes are Linux boxes running samba, so there
shouldn't be a problem, except if the web admin interface won't
support
a samba DC setup and I won't have SSH access to configure the NAS
samba
myself
a cheaper nas will probably use samba, but not all NASs do. there are
several commercial SMB/CIFS implementation out there.
At least iomega/lenovo/emc state their NAS runs Samba. And a lot of
less know vendors also. I'll buy a single, cheap NAS, not a high end
EMC rack full of boxes. :-)
But... will any NAS you know work with a Samba DC, or else, using an
IPA server? Or will they only work with Microsoft Windows Server AD?
All vendors I contacted talk only about MS Active Directory. They
don't even know about NT4-style domains, which would mean a Samba3 DC
should work. Besides, AFAIK a Samba4 DC isn't supported by RHEL at
all -- that's why I included IPA in my question -- I'd have to use
Sernet packages for Samba4. Even then, Samba4 is very new, I don't
know if a NAS implementation would accept it in place of a MSAD DC.
Most vendors talk to me about vmware, exchange and sql server
support. They offer me windows-only backup servers and the like. Some
even offer me SAP R/3 agents, while my ERP is another one. They can
only follow their standard script for windows shops. So I ask for the
collective knowledge from the Fedora and Samba lists... can anyone
tell me "I tried this NAS and it worked"? Or should I better forget
about this and keep using cheap intel boxes as file servers?
Am I the first linux sysadmin in the world who's considering to have
a NAS replacing some file servers but keeping his samba DCs?
[]s, Fernando Lozano
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