On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> I've got a CentOS / RHEL (5.x) environment and am in the process of
> migrating the 5.3 file server over to an Oracle/Sun 7120 appliance.
Hi Alan, sorry for the OT.
I'm very much interested on the 7120.
How much space do you have on it and wha
On 11/25/11 4:50 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hmmm, I probably know what the answer will be, but I could always ask
> the hospital to let me connect it to the domain. Though that could
> present security risks that I don't want to deal with.
yes, that is the answer, and actually, no, there's no secur
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 19:50 -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
> > if you're running multiple windows systems with a server and DONT have
> > centralized authentication, you have a mess.
> >
> > if you're not running windows systems, then why are you using SMB ?
> > NFS is the native file sharing system for
> if you're running multiple windows systems with a server and DONT have
> centralized authentication, you have a mess.
>
> if you're not running windows systems, then why are you using SMB ?
> NFS is the native file sharing system for Unix and Linux systems.
It is a bit of an oddball arrangement.
On 11/25/11 10:46 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> The problem here is that currently SMB runs on the 5.3 box which is
> also where NIS runs, and people authenticate from there.
>
> The ZFS appliance is going to be the new home for SMB but it does not
> have a native authentication system and seems to want
> I don't know that particular NAS, but does it allow you to setup an
> anonymous SMB user?
>
> If not, then setup a normal SMB share on the NAS and mount it on the CentOS
> server, then rsync the data across
Moving the data is the easy part.
The problem here is that currently SMB runs on the 5.3
On 11/25/11 10:23 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> p.s. even if I could get it to authenticate SMB from the current 5.3
> box I'd be happy.
>
> If I have to go the directory services route I can only say that I
> hope it has improved a lot since the last time I installed it 18
> months ago - though that was
p.s. even if I could get it to authenticate SMB from the current 5.3
box I'd be happy.
If I have to go the directory services route I can only say that I
hope it has improved a lot since the last time I installed it 18
months ago - though that was 389-ds ...
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> I've never heard of Samba authenticating off NIS, as Windows (SMB/CIFS)
> and Unix (PAM, NIS, etc) use different incompatible password hashes. on
> a pure Samba system that doesn't have an external authentication system
> such as Active Directory, I've always had to use smbpasswd to setup the
>
On 11/25/11 6:00 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Has anyone been here recently and can help with how to config the
> appliance for Samba but to authenticate from NIS ?
I've never heard of Samba authenticating off NIS, as Windows (SMB/CIFS)
and Unix (PAM, NIS, etc) use different incompatible password hash
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've got a CentOS / RHEL (5.x) environment and am in the process of
> migrating the 5.3 file server over to an Oracle/Sun 7120 appliance.
>
> I want to keep my main 5.3 server as our NIS server but am moving NFS
> and Samba funct
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