Read Online Using Samba, 2nd Edition

Samba is a very useful tool for networking who both Windows and Unix systems on your network. Working on a Unix system, allows Windows files and printers on the Unix host, and it also allows UNIX users to access resources shared by Windows systems.

Although May seems natural to use the Windows server to serve files and printers on a network with Windows clients, there are good reasons to prefer the Samba server for the office. Samba is a reliable software that runs on reliable Unix operating systems, resulting in fewer problems and low maintenance costs. Samba also offers better performance under heavy workloads, Windows Server 2000 increased by a factor of 2 to 1 on the same PC hardware, according to the applicable third party standards. A simple, inexpensive PC hardware does not meet the requirements of a large customer of taxes in accordance with the Samba server can easily move to another "big iron" Unix mainframe, which is better than running Windows on a computer many times. If all this were not enough, Samba is a very nice price advantage: it's free. Not only the software itself is freely available, but not to permit access to the client, and it is high quality, free operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD. Table of contents:

Copyright
Preface
Audience for This Book
Organization
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Learning the Samba
What Is Samba?
What Can Samba Do for Me?
Getting Familiar with an SMB Network
An Introduction to the SMB Protocol
Windows Workgroups and Domains
What's New in Samba 2.2?
What's New in Samba 3.0?
What Can Samba Do?
An Overview of the Samba Distribution
How Can I Get Samba?

Chapter 2: Installing Samba on a Unix System
Bundled Versions
Downloading the Samba Distribution
Configuring Samba
Compiling and Installing Samba
Enabling SWAT
A Basic Samba Configuration File
Firewall Configuration
Starting the Samba Daemons
Testing the Samba Daemons

Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Clients
Windows Networking Concepts
Setting Up Windows 95/98/Me Computers
Setting Up Windows NT 4.0 Computers
Setting Up Windows 2000 Computers
Setting Up Windows XP Computers

Chapter 4: Windows NT Domains
Samba as the Primary Domain Controller
Adding Computer Accounts
Configuring Windows Clients for Domain Logons
Logon Scripts
Roaming Profiles
System Policies
Samba as a Domain Member Server
Windows NT Domain Options

Chapter 5: Unix Clients
Sharing Files on Windows 95/98/Me
Sharing Files on Windows NT/2000/XP
smbclient
smbfs
smbsh
smbutil and mount_smbfs

Chapter 6: The Samba Configuration File
The Samba Configuration File
Special Sections
Configuration Options
Server Configuration
Disk Share Configuration
Networking Options with Samba
Virtual Servers
Logging Configuration Options

Chapter 7: Name Resolution and Browsing
Name Resolution
Browsing

Chapter 8: Advanced Disk Shares
Filesystem Differences
File Permissions and Attributes on MS-DOS and Unix
Windows NT/2000/XP ACLs
Name Mangling and Case
Locks and Oplocks
Connection Scripts
Microsoft Distributed Filesystems
Working with NIS

Chapter 9: Users and Security
Users and Groups
Controlling Access to Shares
Authentication of Clients
Passwords
Authentication with winbind

Chapter 10: Printing
Sending Print Jobs to Samba
Printing to Windows Printers

Chapter 11: Additional Samba Information
Time Synchronization
Magic Scripts
Internationalization
Windows Messenger Service
Miscellaneous Options

Chapter 12Troubleshooting Samba
The Tool Box
The Fault Tree
Extra Resources

Example Configuration Files
Samba in a Workgroup
Samba in a Windows NT Domain

Samba Configuration Option Quick Reference
Configuration File Options
Glossary of Configuration Value Types
Configuration File Variables

Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands
Samba Daemons
smbd
nmbd
sinbindd
Samba Distribution Programs
findsmb
make_smbcodepage
make_unicodemap
net
nmblookup
pdbedit
rpcclient
rpcclient commands
smbcacls
smbclient
smbcontrol
smbgroupedit
smbmnt
smbmount
smbpasswd
smbsh
smbspool
smbstatus
smbtar
smbumount
testparm
testprns
wbinfo

Downloading Samba with CVS

Configure Options

Running Samba on Mac OS X Server
Setup Procedures
Configuration Details
Rolling Your Own

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Read Online Using Samba, 2nd Edition.