Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
Mikhail Goriachev
mikhailg at webanoide.org
Mon Oct 20 12:56:37 PDT 2008
Valentin Bud wrote:
> hello list,
> a little story about samba and FreeBSD.
> I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for
> accounting. that software works with lots of files to do the job.
>
> the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the
> directories and files
> so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but
> after that
> at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server.
> The files were there with the correct permissions but the software refused
> to access them with
> an error that they don't exist. I've tried to debug samba but couldn't find
[...]
Here's another story. Our accounting packages also dump their files,
databases and settings onto network drives. This is what we tend to do:
1.- Create a dedicated network drive for every software package with its
own letter. Let's say package XYZ gets letter Y:. All users connecting
to Samba must load network drive for XYZ as Y:. Otherwise some client
instances may complain that the database was installed on Y: but there's
nothing because it is actually somewhere else.
2.- Create user xyz and group xyz. Then map the XYZ network drive as
xyz:xyz. By this, we avoid permission problems.
3.- Whenever we call tech support, we tell them that our network drives
are located on a Windows 2003 machine. This saves us unnecessary
headaches and warranty issues.
We've been doing this for years and it works like a charm.
Regards,
Mikhail.
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Mikhail Goriachev
Webanoide
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