[nzlug] Maintaining owners /groups over network shares

[Cliff Pratt]

Anton wrote:
> 2008/5/5 Paul Lowman <paul_lowman at xtra.co.nz>:
>>  My question is what is the recommended way of dealing with this scenario
>> such that the client machine has the same permissions as the server.
> 
> To do it properly (ie without hacks like copying around the passwd and
> group files), you generally need two parts:
> 
> 1) a centralised user account database - eg: Active Directory (either
> with SFU3.5 or 2003 R2 posix extensions), Samba domain controllers
> (with LDAP backends ideally), or possibly plain old LDAP or even NIS
> (only bother if it is already there though).
> 
Samba Domain Controllers? Not *necessary* surely, though maybe indicated 
by other requirements.

Cheers,

Cliff