Newbie enterprise questions

[dave562]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the Linux world and have jumped in both feet. My first project has been to setup Ubuntu (8.04) and get Subversion running. The Ubuntu install went flawlessly. Subversion has been a struggle, but I finally got it to work with TortoiseSVN and was able to upload files into my repository. The experience required tweaking some permissions via chmod. I've realized that I'm very uncomfortable with integrating Linux into the Windows world, and I don't have any idea of where to start.

I've read vague descriptions of OpenLDAP, and I have a feeling that I should be looking in that direction.

Can any of you recommend some good books about integrating Linux and Windows? What I am specifically interested in is being able to control the access of Windows (Active Directory) groups to resources on the Linux box. I will be looking into Samba as well, but I need to control access to more than just network file shares. For example, to be able to get TortoiseSVN to transfer (Import) files into the repository, I had to give the "world" rxw rights to some of the sub-directories in the Subversion repository. I'm fairly certain that is a huge security hole right now. In an ideal world, I would have liked to create a group in Windows, and only allow those people access to the directories.

If it matters, I'm not married to Ubuntu and have already considered giving CentOS a try. I work at a shop with a heavy investment in HP hardware, and HP has great support for RHEL, so I figure CentOS will probably be a good foundation for where I am working.

[elija]

Samba could do the active directory integration Samba & Active Directory - SambaWiki

A free Subversion book Version Control with Subversion

CentOS is RHEL with different branding so if you are in a RHEL environment it sounds ideal.