On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Gurpreet <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, recently in a meeting i suggested my organization of creating
a centralized storage server, as in present scenario, all the users
are having their data on the machines on which they're working, and
taking backup from them is nothing less than a pain. Well i was
asked to work on this, n suggest them the cost of the overall setup.
Regarding hardware i don't think so that's gonna be a prb. But for
the OS part, i'm thinking of installing opensolaris, and i'm working
on it for the past one week to get comfortable with it. well there
are few hurdles.
1. Wat i thought of was like, the users would be able to access
shared folders by like accessing the machine. for e.g. like there
are two users Jerry and Tom, so when Jerry accesses it, he'll
provide a usersname and password, and then be able to store or
access his files, so it is like setting passwords on folders. And
Tom cannot access unless he knows the password of Jerry. Is this
thing possible?
I've worked on other alternatives like freenas, openfiler, there is
nothing like this on them. Well, all the users are working on
windows XP.
This is available in all alternatives, it's called "Share Level"
security and it is not recommended as it is inheritently insecure.
Best is have users authenticate against an authentication authority of
some type (MS AD, Kerberos, Samba PDC, etc) then have your file server
verify against that authority then provide access based on ACLs.
This has the advantage that users' enter their password once on login,
transparently have access to what they should and is more secure then
setting static Share passwords everywhere.
-Ross
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