Using SAMBA to share Host drives among appliances.

[bernie.carpenter]

Hi,

Im very new to proxmox and relatively new to Debian/linux - coming from a Windows Server background. Anyway, I have a proxmox server set up nicely with a few Win2003 and ubuntu servers humming away (proxmox is great software! So quick and easy to set up!) and want to share data between them on the drives that are on the Proxmox server machine. I understand the ability to do this is on the "roadmap", but I want to do this now.

So I have set up SAMBA on the Proxmox box (along with Webmin). I plan to just share the Terabyte drives I have on the Proxmox machine and map them to the Win2003/Ubuntus servers so they can all see the same data.

Is there a better/smarter way to do this ??

Any help/advice appreciated.

 

[tom]

Hi,

Im very new to proxmox and relatively new to Debian/linux - coming from a Windows Server background. Anyway, I have a proxmox server set up nicely with a few Win2003 and ubuntu servers humming away (proxmox is great software! So quick and easy to set up!) and want to share data between them on the drives that are on the Proxmox server machine. I understand the ability to do this is on the "roadmap", but I want to do this now.

So I have set up SAMBA on the Proxmox box (along with Webmin). I plan to just share the Terabyte drives I have on the Proxmox machine and map them to the Win2003/Ubuntus servers so they can all see the same data.

Is there a better/smarter way to do this ??

Any help/advice appreciated.

Samba is the preferred way if you need shares on Linux and Windows, just works.

 

[bernie.carpenter]

Hey, Thanks for that.

I didnt want to miss something obvious and make a basic beginners mistake.

If anyone is reading this and wants to do the same thing, I followed these instructions here and got my proxmox box to talk to my Win2k3 Domain as a member sever without too much fuss. ACLs and all the rest seem to be working nicely ...

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/battista/documentation/winbind/index.html

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/battista/documentation/winbindenterprise/