[Samba] Re: Samba 3.0 and Windows Files

[Sebastian Kucik]

Kevin,
I am trying to accomplish just what you have described here. 
Unfortunatelly I am new to Samba and linux. Do you have any references 
to documentation I can use to setup Samba 3 as AD member with XFS, 
libattr and libacl?

Thank You
Sebastian
Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Laurent Thiers wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to propose a Linux/Samba Filer for people operating a 
>> Windows
>> PDC + a bunch of W2K and Linux clients so far.
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
>>
>> Request is create a new NAS storage pool under Linux/Samba 3.0 and to be
>> able to keep existing NTFS file security settings (per user).
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
>>
>> That means that people would progressively move their data to the Linux /
>> Samba NAS, these data would be migrated to tape, but we need to 
>> maintain the
>> current NTFS settings of the files.
> 
> 
> You mean the people would move their own files to the NAS?
> 
>>
>> Linux / Samba NAS would use existing Active Directory data for user
>> registration.
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
>>
>> Is this possible with Samba ?
>> How to format the NAS to do so ? (EXT3 & XFS would "wipe out" current 
>> NTFS
>> file settings ?)
> 
> 
> I just set up a server using XFS, libattr and libacl support and Samba 
> configured to use all of that. With Samba joined to ADS, and using 
> winbindd on the Samba server to get users and groups from ADS, the use 
> of the Samba server is pretty much invisible to the users (other than 
> it's faster and more stable than their old server :-), and it fully 
> supports NTFS security and other attributes.
> 
> If you want to copy the data in bulk over to the Samba server, check out 
> the robocopy tool that is included in the Windows 2000/2003 Resource 
> Kit. It knows how to copy files and also copy over the NTFS security 
> settings.
>