Managing Fedora 30 with SMB share for 100 users
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Things are moving towards webdav. but the client is not ready to move their main shared drive to something like Nextcloud and use WebDAV.
So, I can drop the old Windows 2008R2 server and move it to SMB shares on a NAS easily enough. That is transparent to the users.
But how can I manage the users and permissions efficiently. Not just me, but typically I give password reset rights to a trusted user at the client.
Aiming to drop AD entirely.
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@JaredBusch Do you still want centralized management for users and security groups? A number of options are available of course, but as to which one would be best to use, that's the sticky bit.
I know Synology has a module that will handle authentication. Not sure if other NAS vendors have the same sort of thing available.
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Short of keeping AD or running something like IdM, you might be stuck with Webmin for non technical people. I'm pretty sure Cockpit doesn't have Samba integration yet.
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@travisdh1 said in Managing Fedora 30 with SMB share for 100 users:
@JaredBusch Do you still want centralized management for users and security groups? A number of options are available of course, but as to which one would be best to use, that's the sticky bit.
I know Synology has a module that will handle authentication. Not sure if other NAS vendors have the same sort of thing available.
They have a Synology with empty bays.
But eh, not sure I like that idea.
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@JaredBusch said in Managing Fedora 30 with SMB share for 100 users:
@travisdh1 said in Managing Fedora 30 with SMB share for 100 users:
@JaredBusch Do you still want centralized management for users and security groups? A number of options are available of course, but as to which one would be best to use, that's the sticky bit.
I know Synology has a module that will handle authentication. Not sure if other NAS vendors have the same sort of thing available.
They have a Synology with empty bays.
But eh, not sure I like that idea.
Sounds like you should just forget about even managing all that then.
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@stacksofplates said in Managing Fedora 30 with SMB share for 100 users:
Short of keeping AD or running something like IdM, you might be stuck with Webmin for non technical people. I'm pretty sure Cockpit doesn't have Samba integration yet.
Yeah I would also go with webmin here for non technical people to easily manage things like that.
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@JaredBusch I have a couple clients using Synology for their auth needs and it's been working extremely well.
