I am trying to accomplish just what you have described here. Unfortunatelly I am new to Samba and linux. Do you have any references to documentation I can use to setup Samba 3 as AD member with XFS, libattr and libacl?
Thank You Sebastian Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
Laurent Thiers wrote:
Hello,
I would like to propose a Linux/Samba Filer for people operating a Windows
PDC + a bunch of W2K and Linux clients so far.
OK.
Request is create a new NAS storage pool under Linux/Samba 3.0 and to be able to keep existing NTFS file security settings (per user).
OK.
That means that people would progressively move their data to the Linux /
Samba NAS, these data would be migrated to tape, but we need to maintain the
current NTFS settings of the files.
You mean the people would move their own files to the NAS?
Linux / Samba NAS would use existing Active Directory data for user registration.
OK.
Is this possible with Samba ?
How to format the NAS to do so ? (EXT3 & XFS would "wipe out" current NTFS
file settings ?)
I just set up a server using XFS, libattr and libacl support and Samba configured to use all of that. With Samba joined to ADS, and using winbindd on the Samba server to get users and groups from ADS, the use of the Samba server is pretty much invisible to the users (other than it's faster and more stable than their old server :-), and it fully supports NTFS security and other attributes.
If you want to copy the data in bulk over to the Samba server, check out the robocopy tool that is included in the Windows 2000/2003 Resource Kit. It knows how to copy files and also copy over the NTFS security settings.
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