[mdlug] Export homedirs via NFS and Samba?

[Robert Adkins]

Use Access Control Lists.

The Filesystem should definitely support that, just tweak that on the server
to support both the UNIX and the Domain permissions and away you go. (Or at
least, that's the theory...)

-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Wojtak, Greg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:29 AM
> To: mdlug at mdlug.org
> Subject: [mdlug] Export homedirs via NFS and Samba?
> 
> Is this a common setup?  I have an NFS/Samba server set up.  
> I am currently exporting users' home directories.  I want the 
> users to be able to mount their home directories on UNIX or 
> Windows, but here is the issue I am having.  The server is 
> joined to the domain MI.  I can export /home/gwojtak via NFS 
> just fine.  I can export [homes] in Samba just fine.  The 
> problem comes up with permissions - UNIX, of course just sets 
> ownership to gwojtak on newly created files.  If I try to 
> access my home directory via Samba, it is getting the 
> expected winbind mangling, 'MI+gwojtak' and permission is 
> denied to even pull up the UNC.  Changing the ownership on 
> the Samba server on /home/gwojtak to MI+gwojtak makes it work 
> properly on Windows, but then breaks NFS ownerships.
> 
> Is this not a good setup?  What am I doing wrong, or should I 
> not even be doing this?  It seems to me that this would be a 
> common implementation?  This is a Red HATE Enterprise Linux 
> 5.1 server.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Greg Wojtak
> http://www.yesthatsright.net/
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