[Samba] Domain Member Server or Mounted Shares?

[Felipe Augusto van de Wiel]

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On 01/18/2007 07:48 PM, Jason Baker escreveu:
> Now that I have my Samba PDC up and running, I will soon be 
> building a NAS for network file storage, backups and running
> virtual machines and tests. I need to make some shares on this
> machine that network users can access for file storage.
> 
> I can either design it to be a Samba Domain Member and set up 
> shares that would be authenticated via the PDC or I could
> simply mount the shares to the PDC via CIFS and let the users
> access them locally through the PDC.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this?

	If you can have the NAS as a Domain Member, where you can
define ACLs based on the PDC User List, IMHO, that should be the
way to go.

	Samba and NAS will only exchange information about who is
able to access and who isn't, instead of exchange the entire share,
at least, that's the way I understand it, and by doing that, you
would reduce the traffic in your local network. ;)


	Kind regards,

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
http://www.paranacidade.org.br/           Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
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