James Dugger wrote:
> I'm new to PLUG and new to LINUX but I have jumped in head first. By
> head first I mean I have removed XP off of 4 desktops and Vista off my
> HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on each. I
> have built an new headless server with and AMD Athelon (tripple core)
> 64bit chip and 2GB of DDR2 DRAM to be used as a file server, and print
> server to 3 printers. I have installed 3 - 1TB drives in a RAID 5
> array (Configured as RAID on main board BIOS, no PCI controller) and
> software controlled using the OS which is Ubuntu 10.04 Server AMD
> 64bit.
I think you want to disable RAID on the MB, and let Linux handle the
raid processing (aka software raid). I'm not sure what happens with the
configuration you've described.
> I am trying to configure the file server but with so many options and
> settings I admit that I am a bit lost. My file server will need to be
> accessible to a couple of work computers that run Windows. Also I
> have an Apple TV box that I am trying to convert to XBMC, the media
> for this will be stored on the file server. With this I have
> installed Samba onto my server and desktops. However I don't know if
> I should use samba (SMB) or CIFS for configuration. With several
> different mount points and different security settings for each mount
> point, is SMB or CIFS better? I want to minimize or more accurately
> centralize the administrative control of user access to the file
> server. I know there are different ways to accomplish this and wanted
> to ask what others have found to work best given the small size and
> scale of this network.
SMB and CIFS are pretty much the same thing. I could say simply that
CIFS is 'better' (given that it's a newer dialect of SMB), but that
would be misleading. Do some googling and you'll find links such as
this:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2007-03/msg01423.html
> I am looking for recommendations in file server type (SMB, CIFS) and
> recommended configuration i.e. use of groups for users, passwords
> stored in database or text files and or matching user accounts in OS.
KISS. Use what's simple. In a home environment, centralized user
accounts are overkill, and not simple (unless you're a seasoned *nix
administrator). You might consider simply allowing guest access to
everything, then tightening restrictions as you go.
I would use samba(CIFS) for windows access, NFS for linux access.
Automounting is pretty slick with CentOS/RHEL, and I expect that Ubuntu
has something similar. Also, you might consider using Netatalk for Mac
access.
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Welcome.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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