On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:27:37AM +0300, Anton Antonov wrote: > Dear Debian, > > > My name is Anton Antonov and I?m a system administrator in Neterra Bulgaria. > In > our office we have LAN including Linux and Windows desktops. We have server > running under Red Hat Linux 7.2 with kernel 2.4.28. On this server we have > Samba v.2.2 for Windows based Desktop Machines and NFS for Linux based > Desktop > Machines. Using this server we have encountered a problem which we cannot > solve. We need software that can restrict the access to several directories > by > password and at the same time all the users who have access to these > directories to be able to access them simultaneously. > > > First we tried to solve this problem by exporting several directories by > Samba > and to protect them by NIS passwords. The problem that we met here was that > the > Linux users couldn?t modify the permissions to the files which they create. > > > After that we tried with some encryption tools like BCrypt. The problem this > time was that when there was a user logged in, no one else could get access > to > the same directory. > > > At the end we tried with Cryptoloop and Twofish encryption, but we couldn?t > find a tool that mounts encrypted file system on a Windows Desktop > Installation. We exported this encrypted file systems via NFS and mounted > them > on all Linux Desktop Installations using loop devices. Not long after we > found > out that if somebody changes any file, the other desktop installations can > see > that change only if they remount the encrypted file system. > > > I?m sure there are other decisions to that problem, but apparently they are > out > of my knowledge. I?m kindly asking you for HELP!!! > > > I?m looking forward to your forthcoming reply.
Your questions are more appropriate for a RedHat, Samba, or Windows forum. Please go there and ask your question. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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