mrmarkuz
February 20, 2018, 12:25pm
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There already are some threads, feature requests and plans about improving Windows file server functions in NethServer for not beeing dependant of RSAT. Just feel free to add your opinion…
With the introduction of Nethserver ‘Mayo’ 7 beta we also have Samba4. Besides filesharing, Samba is also managing network objects like workstations, servers groups and users. Samba 4 is (more or less) compatible with Active Directory.
In Active Directory a lot is managed through GPO’s (Group policy objects). Microsoft has a decent application for that in RSAT tools. However, as far as I know, there is no opensource alternative for that.
Does this mean we are still stuck with at least 1 Window…
NethServer Version: NethServer release 7.3.1611 (Final)
Module: Management
I am putting this out there to the Nethserver Developers to build a policy within the Web GUI which interacts with Samba and creates Drive Maps.
We would like to create a drive map to a network address
We would like to edit the permissions for users and groups to these drive maps
We would like to mount these drive maps on domain joined devices on startup
This has been achieved in the earlier version of Nethserver …
There are a few feature requests that could lead us to resume the “Windows network” page in server manager
The new page (I’d like “Windows file server” as title) should contain:
“Workgroup name” field, modifiable only with LDAP providers, read-only if joined to AD.
A radio button to switch between legacy NTLM-auth access and domain Kerberos-auth. See this bug .
A checkbox to enable the home$ share , that enables the domain administrator to access users’ home directories.
As requ…