On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:54:24 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote > stuartv wrote: > > the network and share a couple network printers. I would > > also like to use an encrypted file system on which to store > > important data that needs to be protected (in case of theft > > etc). >
Why have your file server use an encrypted file system? If an authorized person is able to get to it physically, it's game over anyways. Plus you have to do backups that also encrypt the data on the tape. Tapes are easier to steal than a file server especially if the tapes are stored off site. And if you lost the encryption keys or there is some kind of corruption then all your data is no good. One option you may want to research is using Windows servers for authentication only and use OpenBSD/Samba for the file server. You would have to look into setting up ldap and kerberos. You can also wait for Samba 4.0 which should be a complete replacement for authentication as well as file services. MS Access should work with any SQL server, I would look into Postgresql and avoid MySQL. Though I've never used either so I'm no authority, all the research I came up with showed that Postgresql was more standards compliant and preferred.
