Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

[Stephen]

There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just need to determine how
to set it up.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bryan O'Neal
<Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> I agree with everything I have seen in this thread so far. If you are
> a seasoned windows admin you can use Active Directory for central user
> authentication and file level access with only about 10 -15 min worth
> of work. Otherwise linux does not have (to the best of my knowledge)
> easy central account management. Also if you feel frustrated by the
> SMB permissions you can think of it like a windows share - you can
> layer more security on top of it. With linux you just use ACL's but
> enabling them requires editing your fstab and adding the ACL support
> tag - and then remounting or simply rebooting.
>
> It is all really simple so if your interested I can go into detail.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com> 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 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>>
>> --
>> James
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