Using Samba

Table of Contents
Preface ..................................................................................................................... ix
1. Learning the Samba ................................................................................. 1
What is Samba? ................................................................................................. 2
What Can Samba Do For Me? .......................................................................... 3
Getting Familiar with a SMB/CIFS Network ................................................... 9
Microsoft Implementations ............................................................................ 18
An Overview of the Samba Distribution ....................................................... 27
How Can I Get Samba? .................................................................................. 28
What’s New in Samba 2.0? ............................................................................. 28
And That’s Not All... ....................................................................................... 30
2. Installing Samba on a Unix System ............................................... 31
Downloading the Samba Distribution ........................................................... 32
Configuring Samba ......................................................................................... 34
Compiling and Installing Samba ................................................................... 38
A Basic Samba Configuration File ................................................................. 41
Starting the Samba Daemons ......................................................................... 46
Testing the Samba Daemons ......................................................................... 49
3. Configuring Windows Clients ............................................................ 50
Setting Up Windows 95/98 Computers ......................................................... 50
Setting Up Windows NT 4.0 Computers ....................................................... 63
An Introduction to SMB/CIFS ........................................................................ 74
4. Disk Shares ................................................................................................ 82
Learning the Samba Configuration File ......................................................... 82
Special Sections .............................................................................................. 88
Configuration File Options ............................................................................ 91
Server Configuration ...................................................................................... 93
Disk Share Configuration ............................................................................... 96
Networking Options with Samba ................................................................ 101
Virtual Servers .............................................................................................. 106
Logging Configuration Options ................................................................... 108
5. Browsing and Advanced Disk Shares ........................................... 114
Browsing ....................................................................................................... 114
Filesystem Differences ................................................................................. 127
File Permissions and Attributes on MS-DOS and Unix .............................. 135
Name Mangling and Case ............................................................................ 143
Locks and Oplocks ...................................................................................... 149
6. Users, Security, and Domains .......................................................... 155
Users and Groups ........................................................................................ 155
Controlling Access to Shares ....................................................................... 158
Authentication Security ................................................................................ 164
Passwords ..................................................................................................... 171
Windows Domains ....................................................................................... 184
Logon Scripts ................................................................................................ 192
7. Printing and Name Resolution ....................................................... 201
Sending Print Jobs to Samba ....................................................................... 201
Printing to Windows Client Printers ............................................................ 213
Name Resolution with Samba ..................................................................... 224
8. Additional Samba Information ...................................................... 230
Supporting Programmers ............................................................................. 230
Magic Scripts ................................................................................................ 233
Internationalization ...................................................................................... 234
WinPopup Messages .................................................................................... 237
Recently Added Options .............................................................................. 238
Miscellaneous Options ................................................................................. 240
Backups with smbtar ................................................................................... 245
9. Troubleshooting Samba ..................................................................... 250
The Tool Bag ................................................................................................ 250
The Fault Tree .............................................................................................. 257
Extra Resources ............................................................................................ 291
A. Configuring Samba with SSL ........................................................... 295
B. Samba Performance Tuning ............................................................ 312
C. Samba Configuration Option Quick Reference ........................ 329
D. Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands ...................... 359
E. Downloading Samba with CVS ....................................................... 378
F. Sample Configuration File ................................................................ 379
Index .................................................................................................................... 385

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