Guys, Quick Question with Long Background :-) File server (FS1) Backup of File Server (FS2) Previously, the arrangement is I rsync copies of the files from FS1 to FS2 every-night and this box FS2 is only accessible via SSH and nothing else. So, in the event of file curruption, they will have to contact me with details and I will try to fish out the files. Now, to make this easier, I've made FS2 as a samba server with read-only priviledges, serving the backup files for self retrieval. No problems till now. Question : I would like to further limit access to FS2 to only authenticate users. (eg: users authenticated/recognised by FS1) Is this possible? I can think of several ways to achieve this : 1. Set up an NFS/samba (read-only) mount from FS1 to FS2, and then share that folder under the existing FS1 share directory. This way, I wouldn't have issues of authentication, since it's NFS/Samba mounted by Linux. 2. Rsync a copy of the smbpasswd file from FS1 to FS2 every (night/hour?). The problem with this solution which I can see is the user changes his/her password through a web interface (changepassword.cgi) and then FS2 will not be able to recognise the user and denies access. (@ least until the rsync occurs) 3. Set up some kind of authentication forwarding. Right now, users are authenticated against a MS PDC, new users are added manually to the Linux FS1 for File Server (write) Access. Is there a way to pass authentication through FS1 to FS2?? Maybe this is not a samba question. --
