Shannon Johnson wrote:
From what I can gather, you've got
2003 AD doing user management
RHEL for a (home) fileserver
Clients of all flavors
Have you thoroughly investigated just using nfs and autofs to do home
directory mounting and decided you can't use it for one reason or
another? What are those reasons? You'd probably have less headache
using nfs in a unix client - unix server environment, after all,
that's
what NFS is good for.
Win2000 server, not 2k3... but essentially correct. NFS won't work
because since we're doing authentication through winbind, all of the
uid's are different on each linux client. We've tried loading the
Services for Unix on the server, and assigning UID's, then using the
idmap_ad as the idmap backend, but I'm actually not sure how it works,
so I can't thoroughly explore it (the documentation apparently doesn't
exist?). The only thing I can check is "getent passwd" which returns the
UID winbind came up with on its own (through its own methods... not from
AD).
For that I would suggest using a central LDAP repository for your idmap
backend on all machines. If that's all you need to do to get it going
with nfs, that's a not-too-tough situation to solve. You don't have to
go through the (somtimes painful) samba/ldap setup, you just need a
basic ldap server with one idmap tree in it. What are you using for
your unix auth now? since it sounds like you've got a few unix
machines, ldap is a good fit there too, unless you've got something else
that's tied in to your organization that you'd have to rebuild...
Also, we are sharing files in a cross-platform environment... We needed
to have the same file space, using the same quota for all of the users
in the department.
What is enforcing your quotas? 2K or unix machine?
That's why Samba seemed like such a perfect fit.
Windows maps the user's home directory from the Samba server via SMB,
and the Linux users do the same. That's when the symbolic and hard link
problems come into play...
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