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Asked by BNLIND in Linux Distributions, Samba File Server, Linux Setup
We are going to try to move our file servers inside a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain to linux. We bought two HP ProLiant DL160 G6 servers for the project and I am trying to find the best way to set this up.
I originally tried using Ubuntu Server 8.04 Hardy LTS because you can use eBox as a GUI for setting up the shares. After buying the servers, we found out that only the newest version of Ubuntu Server 9.04 Jaunty supports the hardware of our new servers. This is a problem because eBox only has a development version (always breaking) for Jaunty (9.04). I tried joining the server to the Active Directory domain and setting up file sharing using the command line and editing config files by following a few guides online, but it was a mess and only partially worked. Not to mention that administrators are going to need to add, edit, and remove shares and they are not going to use the command line to do it.
So I was wondering what is the best Linux distribution to run for this type of thing that can be set up AND managed EASILY using a GUI (preferably a web gui). If you have to buy the OS (like RHEL), then it kind of defeats the purpose of moving away from Windows, so free OS's only please. The easier it is to use, the better.
Thanks for reading.
20091021-EE-VQP-81 - Hierarchy / EE_QW_3_20080625
