File and Print Proof of Concept "Competition"

[Matthew Carpenter]

Thanks for this information, Gary!  That's good to know.  I'll have to snag
the source and try it out.  

What I'm most concerned with at this point is NOT having to touch the Linux
box (or access it as a guru would).  More specifically, it is important that
we not have to create the user id's on the Linux box, that access is somehow
granted to the filesystem simply by granting rights in the AD.  It's ok if the
rights themselves are assigned at the filesystem level, so long as we can put
together a Windows-user friendly method of managing them.  There are about
200-300 LAN Admins who will need to be able to do this without too much
retraining.

Thanks!
Matt



On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:01:34 -0700 (PDT)
Gary Wilson <usrlnx at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> > I was chosen as part of the Linux/Samba team and I'd
> > like to make sure our POC
> > solution does the technology justice.  I am a firm
> > Open Source evangelist, so
> > my reasons are many and varied.
> > 
> > The solution which seems most palatible is
> > Distributed Samba, using a central
> > directory for administration of authentication and
> > rights.  While I would
> > ordinarily choose OpenLDAP, the company has a strong
> > push for AD and a large
> > dependence upon eDirectory currently, so we would
> > like to use one of these
> > directory services for said administration.
> > 
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> Samba version 3 has made great strides in this area.
> Version 3 is now in its second beta, and the
> developers expect it to be finalized in August.
> 
> >From the Samba team's description of version 3:
> 
> Major new features:
> -------------------
> 
> 1)  Active Directory support.  Samba 3.0 is now able
> to  
>     to join a ADS realm as a member server and
> authenticate 
>     users using LDAP/Kerberos.
> 
> 2)  Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE
> on the wire and
>     internally there is now a much better
> infrastructure for multi-byte
>     and UNICODE character sets.
> 
> 3)  New authentication system. The internal
> authentication system has
>     been almost completely rewritten. Most of the
> changes are internal,
>     but the new auth system is also very configurable.
> 
> 4)  New filename mangling system. The filename
> mangling system has been
>     completely rewritten. An internal database now
> stores mangling maps
>     persistently. This needs lots of testing.
> 
> 5)  A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat
> similar to 
>     the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
> to replace 
>     numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
> subcommands 
>     in "net".
> 
> 6)  Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on
> the wire. This
>     improves error handling a lot.
> 
> 7)  Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support
> including publishing 
>     printer attributes in active directory.
> 
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