I'm working for a higher education institution, and we have Novell Netware for our file sharing services. We are looking at what migration paths are available.
I know samba works, we use it on a number of Solaris and Linux boxes and have it authenticate against our Windows ADS. Manually editing samba confiiguration files for up to a hundred users is OK. The challenge is how do you manage a few thousand users with backends that auto-populate the samba config and front ends which administrators can tweak as needed? Does someone make a product which helps with the management of Samba and provide features like autocreation of groups to support shared permissions on folders, etc? If not a product, has there been a guide on how to deploy samba with a large number (5000) of users and a large number (perhaps 300-500) groups? Having a product which permits users to self-administer their share and allow read or write access to certain users or groups would be ideal. --Donald Teed -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
