linux based network/shared drive (fusion directory)

[Michael Butash]

I saw the bit about GOsa and followed to it's fork, fusiondirectory, 
which actually seemed rather cool and undiscovered for me.  How's yours 
or anyone's here experience been with it vs. an Active Directory setup? 
  Do you treat them mutually exclusively for lin/win?

I'm curious as I always tend to end up having to keep AD to deal with 
windoze (and linux, with openlikewise well enough) clients/servers in 
one form or another, but it'd be great to be able to have a free 
pluggable replacement for it.

Openlikewise makes AD almost brainless easy to use for account/system 
(sudoer groups) management with AD, and is free, where generally you'll 
have an AD setup anyways.  The enterprise version of likewise looks way 
cool, but too expensive for me to deploy at my house to play with first 
to recommend to an actual client.

I know samba4 was getting there, but been a while since looking at how 
usable it and/or fusiondirectory might be for managing reasonably 
current systems like a win7/2008 domain.  FD looks quite nice for *nixes 
if nothing else.

-mb


On 10/23/2012 07:53 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Samba can be a bit tricky, especially if you are trying to enforce user
> access rights.  My favorite combination is:
>
>    - Samba for share management & PDC
>
>    - OpenLDAP for user management
>
>    - Webmin to configure the server
>
>    - GOsa to manage user access configuration
>
> YMMV
> Kevin
>
> On Oct 23, 2012 7:31 PM, "Josh Coffman" <joshcoffman at gmail.com
> <mailto:joshcoffman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>        I need to setup a shared network drive in linux in an otherwise
>     windows environment. (To get around a windows size limit) I know
>     about Samba, and that it's often been a pain for me. Are there any
>     other options or easy ways to set up a network drive using CentOS or
>     something else? I'm guessing they'll want windows authentication,
>     but I haven't asked the question yet.
>
>     Thanks,
>     -josh
>
>
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