Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)
I have a similar setup.
I have an old system running Redhat acting as server.
I use a Debian system as my desktop, and it acts as
the internet gateway.
I have a couple windows systems on the internal
network.
I use samba to allow file sharing with the windows
systems, and have a samba configured printer.
I use NFS to share file systems between Linux systems
because of the convenience.
It may be my limited knowledge of the samba system,
but it seems that to access directorys through samba,
one must run sambaclient, a sort of ftp type
interface. With NFS, I just mount the remote disks,
and work with them as local drives.
--- Balazs Javor <jb3@freemail.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small home network of 3 machines and I'm
> looking for
> recommendations / best practices on how to set up
> certain services
> between them. I'm more interested in the what then
> the who at the moment.
>
> I'm especially interested in:
> - How to set up my mail so that I can use it from
> both Linux systems?
> - File sharing. NFS vs. Samba. What directories to
> share? etc.
>
> So here's what I have at the moment:
>
> 1. I have a Woody box I'm using right now as my
> workstation (XFree) and
> also as a server both for outside (Apache, FTP
> and SMTP) as well as
> for the inside (Samba).
>
> 2. My wife has a Windows box. Nothing special. Uses
> Samba shares.
>
> 3. I have a new box, which I intend to take over the
> role of my primary
> workstation (running Woody/Sid), leaving the
> current box (slooow) just
> to be a server.
>
> On the server I intend to run a few Internet
> services (ADSL) for friends and
> family. At this moment this means Apache and
> Proftpd. I'm also running Exim
> as a 'smarthost' for the machines on my network.
> Finally, I intend to keep all my files on it that I
> would want to access from
> all machines on my network. Right now I'm using
> Samba so that the Windows box
> has access to them, but I'm not sure what's the best
> way to access them from
> the other Linux box.
>
> So here are some questions/issues tha come to my
> mind:
>
> - Right now I'm using the
> exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt combo for my mail.
> And I'm quite happy with the result.
> If I move to the other Linux box as my primary
> worstation, the question
> arises where to receive the mail to?
> I would prefer to keep them on the server and to
> be able to use them on
> both machine as it would be on the local machine.
> I guess this means either IMAP or exporting the
> mail dir through NFS...
>
> - Speaking of NFS...
> I've read once somewhere that somebody argued that
> even though NFS is the
> UNIX way, Samba may offer better performance, even
> between two Linux boxes.
> Is this through?
>
> Also, to ensure that the contents of the Samba
> shares are allways accessible
> and modifyable on all boxes including the Windows
> one, I'd need to ensure
> somehow that everything I put there will be owned
> by default by the samba
> user ID with appropriate permissins. So far I've
> tried the sgid bit on the
> directories but I still often have problems with
> directories created directly
> on the server not being readable on the Windows
> box... Also some files I
> download and then copy to the appropriate shared
> dir cannot be deleted/moved
> from Windows. And I don't really want to access
> local dirs through mounting
> the samba shares just that the permissions are set
> by Samba automatically...
>
> Finally, most people tend to voice various
> security concerns with regard to
> NFS. I generally would like to avoid using RPC
> services if possible.
> Especially on the server. The same goes for inetd
> if possible.
>
> So should I use NFS or Samba?
>
> - Related to the above, if using NFS which
> directories are woth sharing?
> Having the same environment on both machines is
> nice, but some guides
> recommend against sharing home directories.
> Especially when they contain
> ssh keys. On the other hand most configuration
> files are stored directly
> under the home dir...
>
> These are just a few issue I could think of right
> now, but
> any other suggestion for the above setup would be
> greatly appreciated!
>
> Many thanks for your help in advance!
> best regards,
> Balazs
>
>
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