Hello together,
I would like to get your opinion on the following situation.
I have a server "s1" with a large disk array. s1 runs samba and could also run nfs.
I have a second server "s2" which should be the mail server. The mail of the users shall be kept on s1 in a dedicated and shared /mail directory.
Users are managed in an LDAP directory.
For the mail agents I plan to use dovecot, postfix and fetchmail and maildir as the mailbox format.
My question to you is:
Would you mount a samba share on s2 or would you use nfs? The samba mount would be realized as described here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configu...with-etcfstab/. The nfs mount would be realized as described in the ubuntu howtos (e.g. http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/NFS)
If you prefer to use samba (option 1), then how would you instruct the mail agents to use the one particular user used to mount the samba share, e.g. docsadm as in the tutorial?
Option 2 is not my preferred option because I will have alien notebooks in the network and do not want to setup kerberos due to also a high change frequency of friendly computers, i.e. alien as well as own computers come and go into the network on a merely hourly basis.
Thank you very much in advance
Bjoern
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