[Fedora] Re: Help with Samba

[David G. Miller]

"Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:

> > Server 2 is going to restrict access to users it knows about unless 
> > you open up permissions which is a bad idea.
>   
>     If this is only for internal use (and everything is blocked via 
> firewall and iptables) and I have control over what happens where and by 
> who, how bad can it really be?
The problem is you want file ownership (and permissions) maintained from 
the NFS/Server 1 side but not from the Server 2/3 side.  Even if you 
open up permissions on Server 1 (directories 777, files 666), you will 
have all the files owned by nobody (or whatever pcguest maps to on 
Server 2).  This may accomplish what you want but, even if you have 
external access completely locked down, you still have to worry about 
somebody fat-fingering a command.  I've seen more data destroyed by well 
meaning klutzes than hackers.

Any thoughts on using something like rsync and/or shell scripts running 
from cron instead of using NFS between Server 1 and Server 2?  Some 
clever directory naming and you could automate moving files each way 
between Server 1 and Server 2 while keeping the file ownership straight 
and with only fairly minimal latency.

Cheers,
Dave

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