Re: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-12 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Andrew, I work on a NAS product myself, and at this vendor and my previous vendor Samba 4.0 as an AD DC was all I ever needed to use to test the AD integration features of the NAS. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett Please tell me which product this is, so I can contact the local reseller. :-) You ca

Re: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Tony, RE: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba I've had experience with a Western Digital "MyBook Live DUO", and it does NOT support any type of network authentication. Users must be created and deleted on that device. Thanks. May good for home use, but not for my empl

Re: AW: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi, what about the samba running on your NAS. I did a lot of NAS hacking pointing a running samba/winbind config of the vendor to my nt-style samba/ldap domain . But if you do so be aware you are loosing your support :-). So if you can change the samba on your NAS you are up and running. I don

Re: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi, No, they all write their own these days. None available to license as far as I'm aware. Most times the "proprietary" NAS software is simply a web interface over a standard Linux/FreeBSD OS using Samba. If you know Samba and Linux, the web interface may be a hurdle, not allowing access to

Re: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi, Hi there, Has anyone tried to configure a NAS server to authenticate users using a Samba PDC, or even a Samba4 DC (AD-compatible) or an IPA server? not in a while, but I have done a samba 3 DC This was not my question. I'm ok running samba 3 DCs. :-) oh but it was! PDC means NT4 style, s

Re: [Samba] About NAS versus Samba

2013-07-10 Thread fernando
Hi Cris, Hi there, Has anyone tried to configure a NAS server to authenticate users using a Samba PDC, or even a Samba4 DC (AD-compatible) or an IPA server? not in a while, but I have done a samba 3 DC This was not my question. I'm ok running samba 3 DCs. :-) Have you ever configured a NA