Installation of Fedora 8 Samba Server in a Windows Server Active Directory Environment
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This paper details the installation of a Linux (Fedora 8) Samba server for compatibility with a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory environment, which provides Windows and Linux users access to the same shares during the execution of programs on the Windows-based, high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The detailed installation instructions make it possible for relatively inexperienced administrators to replicate. Screen shots are used throughout the paper along with a narrative that explains what to do and why each step is necessary.
The initial installation of the Fedora 8-based server is stock standard, utilizing the defaults wherever possible. Once the base server is installed, the necessary steps are provided to install the Samba software and configure a set of simple shared files to be accessed from other systems. The final step is to join the new Samba server to the Windows domain and test the access to the shares from a Windows user on the Windows-based server and from a Windows domain user who is logged on to a Linux system that is also a member of the domain.
Experienced administrators should be interested to know that once the Fedora server is a member of the Active Directory domain, the Samba shares are visible to anyone who is configured to use them. Making the shares persistent is accomplished in the same way any share would be configured in a Windows environment.
