[gwalchmai]

I'm able to join an AD using Likewise Open, but let's say I want to share DirA and make it viewable by everyone in the domain but only writable by members of the Domain Admin group. How do I do that?

[edcrosbys]

You need to check out Samba. Not sure specifically Ubunto (Debian based - I believe). You can use either winbind or, krb/ldap integration for samba. Afterwards you'd need to edit the samba.conf file to add the directory (with readonly and rw permissions set) or go through one of the gui's out there (swat?).

Even though you join the domain, you still need software to speak CIFS. That's where Samba comes in.

[IndyGunFreak]

ubuntU.....

Sorry don't have a suggestion on this one, I don't mess w/ web stuff much.

IGF

[Linux3]

Originally Posted by gwalchmai

I'm able to join an AD using Likewise Open, but let's say I want to share DirA and make it viewable by everyone in the domain but only writable by members of the Domain Admin group. How do I do that?

First Ubuntu...
Next, I think I understand what you want to do.
To share a non-Windows directory with Windows you need to do a TCP/IP to CIFS protocol translation. The Internet, long before the WorldWide Web used TCP/IP for communications so Microsoft had to invent their own. SMB, server message block, now called CIFS, common internet file system, is what MS came up with.

So, samba is just what you need. You configure it on the Linux system and handles the protocol adaption.

I suggest you use swat to confiure samba, swat is a web based gui tool.
What you are asking is something done every day in a mixed OS enviornment. have fun.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Swat