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I am trying to setup a "shared drive" for our lab on a university campus. I installed Debian on a spare PC we have here and the "clients" are all using Windows 7 Professional.
Ideally, they all want to be able to see a new drive on their computers, called "shared" for example, and they can read/write save/edit files etc on it just like if it was their C drive.
I thought about setting up an NFS on it but Windows 7 professional does NOT come with the "Services for Unix NFS" that would be required to mount an NFS drive. I would have to upgrade them all to Windows 7 Enterprise (out of the question).
So I'm wondering whether there is some other way to setup an NFS that I could connect to on Windows 7 Professional, or if I can just setup a Samba share. Will the Samba share essentially provide me with the same thing that is required?
Ideally they would have their own home server AS WELL AS a shared drive for the entire lab. – Diego – 2012-02-22T23:42:01.263
How are the user logins authenticated? Are the Win7 machines part of a Windows Domain?
If so I've had great luck joining the domain with the following tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto
Essentially you want to join the Debian server to the domain, and then set up the global share as well as the auto home directory creation in smb.conf. This might also help: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory