fileserver question

[battletoad]

If I do a setup as such:

-DC1 is primary domain controller
-DC2 is backup domain controller
-DCFILES is where files of domain users are saved and mounted in DC1 and DC2,

would domain users access their files on DCFILES via DC1/DC2 or straight from DCFILES? I understand that DC1/DC2 will work with file permissions, so would that automatically imply the first option (DCFILES via DC1/DC2)?

I'm wondering how the networking side of things will be done.

 

[unskinnybob]

Are we talking DFS on 2008 R2?

If so: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727150.aspx

 

[battletoad]

nope, im using samba for the domain controller. would be great if there is a DFS analog for samba

edit: I should use google before replying *facepalm* (there is some DFS and samba configuration)

 

[unskinnybob]

Ah. I'm Linux incompatible - sorry

 

[koffiejunkie]

would domain users access their files on DCFILES via DC1/DC2 or straight from DCFILES? I understand that DC1/DC2 will work with file permissions, so would that automatically imply the first option (DCFILES via DC1/DC2)?

No, your DC will deal with authentication. Your domain member servers (DCFILES) is accessed directly.

 

[battletoad]

No, your DC will deal with authentication. Your domain member servers (DCFILES) is accessed directly.

awesome!

EDIT: my (supposedly) last question concerns directory write permissions.

On DCFILES I'll set ownership and permissions on /srv/samba/files as jones:user and 775. Thereafter I edit smb.conf

[domainfiles]
path = /srv/samba/files
valid users = jones @user
read only = no
browseable = no

Now on DC1, I mount \\DCFILES\domainfiles into say /mnt/domainfiles. Change permissions to 770 and ownership to admin:user. I set every account to have "user" group membership. Will this config permit samba domain users specified on DC1 to write to the network share on DCFILES?
Also, how do I set a user's home directory as /mnt/domainfiles/user? More importantly, I don't really want to change each and every users' home directory, I'd rather want it to be done automatically. In which manner do i do this?