What Linux Distribution for File Sharing on Windows Network

Read this one

http://us3.samba.org/samba/GUI/

you can also use webmin to adminstration samba

I've used Webmin before, but had trouble with it. Can webmin join the active directory domain and setup shares with permissions and all that stuff? And how is CentOS with packaging. This is the one big issue I have with Ubuntu is half the packages in the repositories are broken or don't work properly.

There is not any problem with Centos, i can Gurentee you.

Centos use Yum command to update every thing . from patch to Software update,
When there would be any update available it will notify you automaticaly.
also advantage is, you can add your own reliable repository to get more software and update.
but the basic repository comes with centos they are actually enough.

about webmin with Activie directory ... i am not sure,

but i will google it for further information.

also, Configuration samba its not that hard itself , its not a big file to configure. download samba in a normal centos pc, and have a look to configuration file

have a look to this one

http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_active_directory

just a article to show how to add samba with active directory, if you look in gogle you will loads of staff, but its realy not that hard that you will have to use Gui interface..

Good to hear about CentOS. As for the Samba config file, I have already tried configuring it on a Ubuntu Server machine to work in a Windows Active Directory Domain by hand and it was a disaster. It joins the domain, but pops error after error and doesn't authenticate against anything.

That's why I'm looking for an easy and robust way of joining the domain and managing shares. And the link you provided is for Gentoo, not CentOS.

My main problem with editing files by hand is that there is ALWAYS something in the guide that is wrong or not mentioned. then when I run into an error, I spend the rest of the day Googling the problem and end up saying "screw it, this is impossible".

So I need something EASY to join the box to the domain for me.

Sorry i suppose to sent you this link but sent you a wrong one from my bookmark


http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode

currnelty i dont know any tools but i will have have a look in google...

Is there anything special I need to know about adding security permissions to the users on the domain using Webmin? I was reading one tutorial on joining CentOS to a Windows domain and it had this line in it, which I'm not sure what it means:

Make sure the share disk has group "your Windows Domain"+domain users

By the way, the page I was looking at was: http://www.fourm.info/Tools/how-to-set-up-a-samba-server-for-active-directory-authentication

I think what he meant is

when you will share a directory and will you will define that share in smb.conf

you will have to define who can access that share

example

[homes]

comment = Home Directories

browseable = no

writable = yes

valid users = %S   ---------------------------- >> this one

create mode = 0664

directory mode = 0775

I am trying to install CentOS now, and the installation is taking forever. it says it's "Formatting / File System", but it's been doing that for over an hour. Any other Linux distro takes like two seconds. Is that normal?

ommmm , NOp its not normal..

do you have problem with the hardrive ???

I've been in several chat rooms and have been asked that question, but I've installed Ubuntu Server without any issues on this server

From your other question you asked ...

you said after restart you realized , its made LVm partions ..

did you create partition properly ??

I let the installer do everything automatically. It even said on the partitioning page that the defaults should used....and I used them, so I have no idea if it created the partitions properly.

All I know is that the partitioning never ends and I can boot up a Live Fedora CD just fine, I can install Ubuntu Server and Desktop just fine and I can install XP just fine.

Ok in that case i will have to say, have you check the CD you got for Centos is that ok ??

may be the CD of Centos is not good so its giving trouble , have you tryed downloading and burning into another cd ??

I admit that I let it skip the verification before the installation. I'll let it run that this time and see what happens.

or even you can  try installing on one hardrive and if installation succefully add another hardrive with LVm later on

Yea, I'm trying with another hard drive first, before I do the CD check

I am 10 minutes into trying the install on another hard drive and it's still stuck doing partitioning, so it can't be a bad drive. Also, there seems to be no disk activity at all while the partitioning is running. I'm burning a Fedora Live CD now....I may just use Fedora as the OS, this is ridiculous. I've spent all morning in the #centos IRC room the only thing I get out of those guys is, "That's weird". No help at all.

as i said, it could be faulty Cd , did you try to burn into another cd ???

or may be the from where you did download that was not good may be file corruption

so i would of suggest you to download again from another download location.. or burn it again to another Cd or atleast test the cd before installing

Even though there were some initial problems with getting CentOS installed, I have been playing with it all day and I've got to say that I'm starting to like it. I quickly found out that you can pretty much follow any RHEL tutorial, and read all the documentation for RHEL and it all applies to CentOS because the only thing they really is remove the trademarked artwork and replace it with CentOS artwork.

I personally think that Linux still has a way to go before it can reach the level of ease-of-use that Windows servers offer, but as far as Linux servers go, I think RHEL/CentOS is the closest to reaching that goal when it comes to business requirements. Feature-wise, there is no comparison. Linux blows Windows out of the water....if you can figure out how to configure it. Ubuntu Server and eBox are WAY behind.

For everyone else having a problem with HP Proliant servers and RHEL/CentOS, the trick is to go into the BIOS and change the SATA Controller mode to AHCI from Compatibility (legacy IDE emulation).

I'm sure I'll have MANY more questions, so keep up the good work fosiul01!