Using Samba

Using Samba

Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for network clients using Microsoft Windows on the desktop. Available under the GNU General Public License, this open source software is so robust, flexible, fast, and secure that many administrators choose it over Windows for their file and print services.Our complete guide to Samba administration is intended for those of you who manage Unix and Linux and need to support Windows clients on your network, as well as anyone who needs to access the resources of a Windows network environment from a Unix client. Covering versions 2.0 and 3.0 of Samba, this new edition takes administrators from basic installation and configuration - on both the client and server side - to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery. The book also includes added support for Active Directory and other LDAP databases such as OpenLDAP, SWAT, a complete rewrite of printer coverage, and much more. It's a one-stop-shop to setting up an efficient and secure Samba server.

This book, which has been officially adopted by the Samba Team and is under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration. The 2nd edition focuses on Samba 2.2 and covers the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print.

Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Samba is so robust, flexible, fast, and secure that many people are choosing it over Windows NT/2000/XP for their file and print services. Samba is also free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

This book will help you make file and print sharing as robust, powerful, and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself.

Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration--on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems--to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether a user sees the folder they expect or a cryptic error message.

The range of this book knows few bounds. Wondering how to integrate Samba's authentication with that of a Windows PDC? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting.Whether you're playing on one note or a full three-octave range, on your personal computer or an enterprise network, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

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David Collier-Brown is a consulting systems integrator, currentlyworking for the performance and engineering group at Sun Opcom in Toronto.

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Preface

1. An Introduction to Samba
- What Is Samba?
- What Can Samba Do for Me?
- The Common Internet File System
- Connecting to a CIFS File Share
- Browsing
- Authentication: Peer-to-Peer Versus Domains
- What's in Samba 3.0?
- Future Research in Samba 4.0
- What Can Samba Do?
- An Overview of the Samba Distribution
- How Can I Get Samba?

2. Installing Samba on a Unix System
- Binary Packages
- Compiling from Source
- Compiling and Installing Samba
- Enabling the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT)
- A Basic Samba Configuration File
- Firewall Configuration
- Starting the Samba Daemons

3. Configuring Windows Clients
- Windows Networking Concepts
- Windows Setup

4. The Samba Configuration File
- Basic Syntax and Rules
- Special Sections
- Configuration File Options
- Basic Server Configuration
- Disk Share Configuration
- Networking Options with Samba
- Virtual Servers
- Logging Configuration Options

5. Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization
- Security Modes
- User Management
- Group Mapping
- User Privilege Management
- Controlling Authorization for File Shares

6. Advanced Disk Shares
- Special Share Names
- Filesystem Differences
- Access Control Lists
- Microsoft Distributed File Systems
- Virtual File Systems
- Executing Server Scripts

7. Printing
- Print Shares
- A Usable Print Share
- Samba and CUPS
- The [printers] Service
- Enabling SMB Printer Sharing in OS X
- Creating a PDF Printer
- Managing Windows Print Drivers
- Printers and Security
- Disabling Point and Print
- Printing, Queue Lists, and tdb Files
- Printing to Windows Printers
- Printing Parameters

8. Name Resolution and Network Browsing
- Name Resolution
- Network Browsing

9. Domain Controllers
- Samba Domains: NT 4.0 or Active Directory?
- Configuring a Samba PDC
- Configuring a Samba BDC
- passdb Recommendations
- Migrating an NT 4.0 Domain to Samba
- Domain Trusts
- Remote Server Management

10. Domain Member Servers
- Joining a Domain
- Domain and ADS Security Modes
- Matching Domain Users to Local Accounts
- Winbind
- Additional Winbind Features

11. Unix Clients
- The Linux CIFS Filesystem
- FreeBSD's smbfs
- Mac OS X
- smbclient
- Remote Administration with net

12. Troubleshooting Samba
- The Tool Box
- Samba Logs
- Unix Utilities
- The Fault Tree
- Troubleshooting Browsing
- Troubleshooting Name Services
- Troubleshooting Network Addresses
- Troubleshooting NetBIOS Names
- Extra Resources

A. Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands
B. Downloading Samba with Subversion
C. Configure Options

- Index