[Samba] Best way to setup Samba + OpenLDAP + Linux to use a different partition for /home?
Thanks in advance! I can't believe the level of service / help I've gotten from this group. Anyway, I have a Samba server acting as a PDC on a network. The server has a small OS drive and one very large RAID array for data / files. Right now, I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed and Samba is using openLDAP for authentication. The person who will add new users is not very technical and needs a simple way to add new users. Right now, I have him adding users via the Webmin LDAP Users and Groups modules. It's working just fine. However, it creates home directories on the small OS drive and he would like to have them all moved to the large RAID array. I have a couple of questions - 1) Would it be better to only have the Samba users files on the large RAID drive, leaving the admin and root homes on the OS drive? 2) If it is, how would I set up for the admin account. For example, the admin is a user named 'fred' and he will also be logging onto the Samba server. Should I create a separate admin account? Or could I simply create two different home directories - one for the regular users and one for the admins? 3) What is the easiest way to set this up so a person with little technical background can do it fairly easily? Thanks! -- Matt Burkhardt, M.Sci. Technology Management m...@imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Best way to setup Samba + OpenLDAP + Linux to use a different partition for /home?
1) Would it be better to only have the Samba users files on the large RAID drive, leaving the admin and root homes on the OS drive? 2) If it is, how would I set up for the admin account. For example, the admin is a user named 'fred' and he will also be logging onto the Samba server. Should I create a separate admin account? Or could I simply create two different home directories - one for the regular users and one for the admins? 3) What is the easiest way to set this up so a person with little technical background can do it fairly easily? I'm perhaps the last person who should be answering any questions here, as I'm unable to get some things working on my own. But I'll throw out my two cents and see what comments come from it. We have our users files on an external RAID. If you have that RAID mounted on the server, there is no reason I can think of why you couldn't point the user's home directories at the RAID. We use smbldap-useradd to create new users, and the configuration file for the smbldap tools has a userHome variable which specifies the default path for home directories (ie /home/%U). There is nothing (again that I can think of) to prevent you from placing different user's home directories in different locations. smbldap-useradd has a -d switch to override, and I suppose one could edit the LDAP record for the user. We have two accounts which have their credentials in the shadow password file, and can therefore login without LDAP running. I think this is important not to put all of your eggs in one basket. In the case of your third question, I created a page on our internal wiki with some examples of performing basic operations like adding accounts. Each semester we need to bulk add class accounts, so I threw something together which created accounts based on a list of users. As long as the person can follow directions they are fine. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Best way to setup Samba + OpenLDAP + Linux to use a different partition for /home?
On 7/7/2009, Matt Burkhardt (m...@imparisystems.com) wrote: However, it creates home directories on the small OS drive and he would like to have them all moved to the large RAID array. Can't you just set the default Home directory for new Users to wherever you want it (ie, the large RAID array)? I don't use Webmin, but I'd be surprised if you can't set some defaults, and it seems like the home dir would be one of them... -- Best regards, Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Best way to setup Samba + OpenLDAP + Linux to use a different partition for /home?
I would think the same thing. For my setup here [homes] path = /tray2/home/%U That is simply the path to where our zfs raid is at on the system. Should be simple as that, though dont know if your admin software can handle creating zfs filesystems instead of just creating directories. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Charles Marcuscmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 7/7/2009, Matt Burkhardt (m...@imparisystems.com) wrote: However, it creates home directories on the small OS drive and he would like to have them all moved to the large RAID array. Can't you just set the default Home directory for new Users to wherever you want it (ie, the large RAID array)? I don't use Webmin, but I'd be surprised if you can't set some defaults, and it seems like the home dir would be one of them... -- Best regards, Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. -Ray Ghostbusters -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
