[Samba] File-Server update from Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

Andreas Hauffe andreas.hauffe at tu-dresden.de
Tue Feb 3 07:58:31 MST 2015


Hello Marc,

at first thanks!

Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015, 15:15:47 schrieb Marc Muehlfeld:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> Am 03.02.2015 um 13:29 schrieb Andreas Hauffe:
> > The first question is, what to do with the existing TB of data (user
> > homes, global exports, a.s.o.) only with POXIS ACLs (owner,group,others).
> > Do I have to set the more complex Windows ACLs for every folder or file
> > to get at least the same access rights as before?
> It's not recommended to use the DC as a file server. Put your data on a
> member server. If you currently have all data on your PDC, you could
> configure this machine as a member server after you did the
> classicupgrade (on a different host). The AD DC, doesn't have to be a
> very powerful machine, if you don't have thousands of users flooding you
> with authentication. :-)

Sorry! Bad description from my side. The DC is an separate machine even im my 
test environment and I'm going to configure the "old" server as a member 
server as file server.

> You can use Posix ACLs, like ever in the past.
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_and_configure_file_shares_with_POSIX_
> ACLs
> 
> Where do you have your IDs stored atm? In openLDAP? Then it's easy. If
> you do the classicupgrade, the process moves the IDs to AD. You can
> configure your member servers to use RFC2307 idmap backend. Then all
> files are owned by the same users/groups.

Thanks for the hint. I read about this.

> 
> > The second question is, if it is possible to export the same file
> > system/folders as an NFS4 export and a Samba4 share or if there are
> > problems concering the ACLs?
> Sorry. Never tried this. But surely someone else can answer that. :-)
> 

No problem!

> 
> Regards,
> Marc

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Viele Grüße
Andreas Hauffe


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