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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/InterdomainTrusts.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/InterdomainTrusts.sgml index dc34e7eca7..56b0dcc710 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/InterdomainTrusts.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/InterdomainTrusts.sgml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Samba-3 supports NT4 style domain trust relationships. This is feature that many will want to use if they migrate to Samba-3 from and NT4 style domain and do NOT want to adopt Active Directory or an LDAP based authentication back end. This section explains some background information regarding trust relationships and how to create them. It is now -possible for Samba-3 to NT4 trust (and vice versa), as well as Samba3 to Samba3 trusts. +possible for Samba3 to NT4 trust (and vica versa), as well as Samba3 to Samba3 trusts. </para> <sect1> @@ -58,9 +58,7 @@ transitive. New to MS Windows 2000 ADS security contexts is the fact that trust relationships are two-way by default. Also, all inter-ADS domain trusts are transitive. In the case of the RED, WHITE and BLUE domains above, with Windows 2000 and ADS the RED and BLUE domains CAN trust each other. This is -an inherent feature of ADS domains. Samba-3 implements MS Windows NT4 -style Interdomain trusts and interoperates with MS Windows 200x ADS -security domains in similar manner to MS Windows NT4 style domains. +an inherent feature of ADS domains. </para> </sect1> @@ -107,9 +105,9 @@ which must be entered the name of the remote domain as well as the password assi <title>Configuring Samba NT-style Domain Trusts</title> <para> -This description is meant to be a fairly short introduction about how to set up a Samba server so +This descitpion is meant to be a fairly short introduction about how to set up a Samba server so that it could participate in interdomain trust relationships. Trust relationship support in Samba -is in its early stage, so lot of things don't work yet. +is in its early stage, so lot of things doesn't work yet. </para> <para> @@ -124,9 +122,9 @@ between domains in purely Samba environment. <para> In order to set Samba PDC to be trusted party of the relationship first you need -to create special account for the domain that will be the trusting party. To do that, -you can use the 'smbpasswd' utility. Creating the trusted domain account is very -similiar to creating a trusted machine account. Suppose, your domain is +to create special account for domain that will be the trusting party. To do that, +you can use 'smbpasswd' utility. Creating the trusted domain account is very +similiar to creating trusted machine account. Suppose, your domain is called SAMBA, and the remote domain is called RUMBA. The first step will be to issue this command from your favourite shell: </para> @@ -149,10 +147,10 @@ The account name will be 'rumba$' (the name of the remote domain) </para> <para> -After issuing this command you'll be asked to enter the password for -the account. You can use any password you want, but be aware that Windows NT will -not change this password until 7 days following account creation. -After the command returns successfully, you can look at the entry for new account +After issuing this command you'll be asked for typing account's +password. You can use any password you want, but be aware that Windows NT will +not change this password until 7 days have passed since account creating. +After command returns successfully, you can look at your new account's entry (in the way depending on your configuration) and see that account's name is really RUMBA$ and it has 'I' flag in the flags field. Now you're ready to confirm the trust by establishing it from Windows NT Server. @@ -160,11 +158,11 @@ the trust by establishing it from Windows NT Server. <para> Open 'User Manager for Domains' and from menu 'Policies' select 'Trust Relationships...'. -Right beside 'Trusted domains' list box press 'Add...' button. You will be prompted for -the trusted domain name and the relationship password. Type in SAMBA, as this is -your domain name, and the password used at the time of account creation. -Press OK and, if everything went without incident, you will see 'Trusted domain relationship -successfully established' message. +Right beside 'Trusted domains' list box press 'Add...' button. You'll be prompted for +trusted domain name and the relationship's password. Type in SAMBA, as this is +your domain name, and the password you've just used for account creation. +Press OK and, if everything went fine, you will see 'Trusted domain relationship +successfully established' message. Well done. </para> </sect2> @@ -173,11 +171,11 @@ successfully established' message. <para> This time activities are somewhat reversed. Again, we'll assume that your domain -controlled by the Samba PDC is called SAMBA and NT-controlled domain is called RUMBA. +controlled by Samba PDC is called SAMBA and NT-controlled domain is called RUMBA. </para> <para> -The very first thing requirement is to add an account for the SAMBA domain on RUMBA's PDC. +The very first thing is to add account for SAMBA domain on RUMBA's PDC. </para> <para> @@ -187,13 +185,13 @@ domain (SAMBA) and password securing the relationship. </para> <para> -The password can be arbitrarily chosen. It is easy to change it the password -from Samba server whenever you want. After confirming the password your account is -ready for use. Now it's Samba's turn. +Password can be arbitrarily chosen, the more because it's easy to change it +from Samba server whenever you want. After confirming password your account is +ready and waiting. Now it's Samba's turn. </para> <para> -Using your favourite shell while being logged in as root, issue this command: +Using your favourite shell while being logged on as root, issue this command: </para> <para> @@ -201,19 +199,18 @@ Using your favourite shell while being logged in as root, issue this command: </para> <para> -You will be prompted for the password you just typed on your Windows NT4 Server box. -Don not worry if you see an error message that mentions a returned code of +You'll be prompted for password you've just typed on your Windows NT4 Server box. +Don't worry if you will see the error message with returned code of <errorname>NT_STATUS_NOLOGON_INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT</errorname>. It means the -password you gave is correct and the NT4 Server says the account is -ready for interdomain connection and not for ordinary -connection. After that, be patient it can take a while (especially -in large networks), you should see the 'Success' message. Congratulations! Your trust +password you gave is correct and the NT4 Server says the account is ready for trusting your domain +and not for ordinary connection. After that, be patient it can take a while (especially +in large networks), you should see 'Success' message. Contgratulations! Your trust relationship has just been established. </para> <note><para> -Note that you have to run this command as root because you must have write access to -the <filename>secrets.tdb</filename> file. +Note that you have to run this command as root, since you need write access to +your <filename>secrets.tdb</filename> file. </para></note> </sect2> diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml index c1c0ae3293..e81155a36f 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml @@ -1,43 +1,37 @@ <chapter id="IntroSMB"> <chapterinfo> &author.dlechnyr; - <pubdate>April 14, 2003</pubdate> + <pubdate>April 13, 2003</pubdate> </chapterinfo> <title>Introduction to Samba</title> -<para><emphasis> -"If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." --- Anonymous -</emphasis></para> - <para> -Samba is a file and print server for Windows-based clients using TCP/IP as the underlying -transport protocol. In fact, it can support any SMB/CIFS-enabled client. One of Samba's big -strengths is that you can use it to blend your mix of Windows and Linux machines together -without requiring a separate Windows NT/2000/2003 Server. Samba is actively being developed -by a global team of about 30 active programmers and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell. +Samba provides MS Windows file and print services over TCP/IP and provides compatible support for +all SMB/CIFS enabled clients. Samba can be used to provide seemless interoperability between unix +/ Linux systems and MS Windows clients and servers. A global team of about 30 active programmers +is responsible for the development of Samba, a marvelous tool that was originally developed by +Andrew Tridgell. That team of developers is known as the Samba-Team. </para> <sect1> <title>Background</title> <para> -Once long ago, there was a buzzword referred to as DCE/RPC. This stood for Distributed -Computing Environment/Remote Procedure Calls and conceptually was a good idea. It was -originally developed by Apollo/HP as NCA 1.0 (Network Computing Architecture) and only -ran over UDP. When there was a need to run it over TCP so that it would be compatible -with DECnet 3.0, it was redesigned, submitted to The Open Group, and officially became -known as DCE/RPC. Microsoft came along and decided, rather than pay $20 per seat to -license this technology, to reimplement DCE/RPC themselves as MSRPC. From this, the -concept continued in the form of SMB (Server Message Block, or the "what") using the -NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System, or the "how") compatibility layer. You can -run SMB (i.e., transport) over several different protocols; many different implementations -arose as a result, including NBIPX (NetBIOS over IPX, NwLnkNb, or NWNBLink) and NBT -(NetBIOS over TCP/IP, or NetBT). As the years passed, NBT became the most common form -of implementation until the advance of "Direct-Hosted TCP" -- the Microsoft marketing -term for eliminating NetBIOS entirely and running SMB by itself across TCP port 445 -only. As of yet, direct-hosted TCP has yet to catch on. +Once long ago, there was a buzzword referred to as DCE/RPC. This stood for Distributed Computing +Environment/Remote Procedure Calls and conceptually was a good idea. It was originally developed +by Apollo/HP as NCA 1.0 (Network Computing Architecture) and only ran over UDP. When there was +a need to run it over TCP so that it would be compatible with DECnet 3.0, it was redesigned, +submitted to The Open Group, and officially became known as DCE/RPC. Microsoft came along and +decided, rather than pay $20 per seat to license this technology, to reimplement DCE/RPC +themselves as MSRPC. From this, the concept continued in the form of SMB (Server Message Block, +or the "what") using the NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System, or the "how") compatibility +layer. You can run SMB (i.e., transport) over several different protocols; many different +implementations arose as a result, including NBIPX (NetBIOS over IPX, NwLnkNb, or NWNBLink) and +NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP, or NetBT). As the years passed, NBT became the most common form of +implementation until the advance of "Direct-Hosted TCP" -- the Microsoft marketing term for +eliminating NetBIOS entirely and running SMB by itself across TCP port 445 only. As of yet, +direct-hosted TCP has yet to catch on. And so the story goes. </para> <para> @@ -54,29 +48,28 @@ littered with occurrences of clapping hand to forehead and muttering 'crikey, wh thinking? </emphasis></para> -</sect1> - -<sect1> +<sect2> <title>Terminology</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> - SMB: Acronym for "Server Message Block". This is Microsoft's file and printer sharing protocol. + SMB: Acronym for "Server Message Block". This is a Microsoft's file and printer + sharing protocol. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - CIFS: Acronym for "Common Internet File System". Around 1996, Microsoft apparently + CIFS: Acronym for the "Common Internet File System". Around 1996, Microsoft apparently decided that SMB needed the word "Internet" in it, so they changed it to CIFS. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Direct-Hosted: A method of providing file/printer sharing services over port 445/tcp - only using DNS for name resolution instead of WINS. + only, using DNS for name resolution instead of WINS. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - IPC: Acronym for "Inter-Process Communication". A method to communicate specific + IPC: Acronym for "Inter-process Communication". A method to communicate specific information between programs. </para></listitem> @@ -90,8 +83,8 @@ thinking? NetBIOS: Acronym for "Network Basic Input/Output System". This is not a protocol; it is a method of communication across an existing protocol. This is a standard which was originally developed for IBM by Sytek in 1983. To exaggerate the analogy a bit, - it can help to think of this in comparison your computer's BIOS -- it controls the - essential functions of your input/output hardware -- whereas NetBIOS controls the + it can help to think of this in comparison your computer's BIOS -- it controlls the + essential functions of your input/output hardware -- whereas NetBIOS controlls the essential functions of your input/output traffic via the network. Again, this is a bit of an exaggeration but it should help that paradigm shift. What is important to realize is that NetBIOS is a transport standard, not a protocol. Unfortunately, even technically @@ -111,8 +104,8 @@ thinking? <listitem><para> NBT: Acronym for "NetBIOS over TCP"; also known as "NetBT". Allows the continued use - of NetBIOS traffic proxied over TCP/IP. As a result, NetBIOS names are made - to IP addresses and NetBIOS name types are conceptually equivalent to TCP/IP ports. + of NetBIOS traffic proxied over TCP/IP. As a result, NetBIOS names are made equivilant + to IP addresses and NetBIOS name types are conceptually equivilant to TCP/IP ports. This is how file and printer sharing are accomplished in Windows 95/98/ME. They traditionally rely on three ports: NetBIOS Name Service (nbname) via UDP port 137, NetBIOS Datagram Service (nbdatagram) via UDP port 138, and NetBIOS Session Service @@ -131,14 +124,10 @@ thinking? </itemizedlist> -<para>If you plan on getting help, make sure to subscribe to the Samba Mailing List (available at -http://www.samba.org). Optionally, you could just search mailing.unix.samba at http://groups.google.com -</para> +</sect2> -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Related Projects</title> +<sect2> +<title>Related Projects> <para> Currently, there are two projects that are directly related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS network @@ -149,18 +138,20 @@ client file systems for Linux, both available in the Linux kernel itself. <listitem><para> SMBFS (Server Message Block File System) allows you to mount SMB shares (the protocol - that Microsoft Windows and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share files and printers + Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share files and printers over local networks) and access them just like any other Unix directory. This is useful if you just want to mount such filesystems without being a SMBFS server. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> CIFS (Common Internet File System) is the successor to SMB, and is actively being worked - on in the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module is to + on in the upcoming version of the Linux kernel (2.5/2.6). The intent of this module is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional - Winbind (nsswitch) integration. + Winbind (nsswitch) integration. If you enable CONFIG_CIFS in the Linux kernel, be aware + that it is currently in an early development stage and may not be as stable as the existing + CONFIG_SMB_FS option. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -170,186 +161,15 @@ Again, it's important to note that these are implementations for client filesyst nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients. </para> -</sect1> - - -<sect1> -<title>SMB Methodology</title> - -<para> -Traditionally, SMB uses UDP port 137 (NetBIOS name service, or netbios-ns), -UDP port 138 (NetBIOS datagram service, or netbios-dgm), and TCP port 139 (NetBIOS -session service, or netbios-ssn). Anyone looking at their network with a good -packet sniffer will be amazed at the amount of traffic generated by just opening -up a single file. In general, SMB sessions are established in the following order: -</para> - -<itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - "TCP Connection" - establish 3-way handshake (connection) to port 139/tcp - or 445/tcp. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - "NetBIOS Session Request" - using the following "Calling Names": The local - machine's NetBIOS name plus the 16th character 0x00; The server's NetBIOS - name plus the 16th character 0x20 - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - "SMB Negotiate Protocol" - determine the protocol dialect to use, which will - be one of the following: PC Network Program 1.0 (Core) - share level security - mode only; Microsoft Networks 1.03 (Core Plus) - share level security - mode only; Lanman1.0 (LAN Manager 1.0) - uses Challenge/Response - Authentication; Lanman2.1 (LAN Manager 2.1) - uses Challenge/Response - Authentication; NT LM 0.12 (NT LM 0.12) - uses Challenge/Response - Authentication - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - SMB Session Startup. Passwords are encrypted (or not) according to one of - the following methods: Null (no encryption); Cleartext (no encryption); LM - and NTLM; NTLM; NTLMv2 - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - SMB Tree Connect: Connect to a share name (e.g., \\servername\share); Connect - to a service type (e.g., IPC$ named pipe) - </para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -<para> -A good way to examine this process in depth is to try out SecurityFriday's SWB program -at http://www.securityfriday.com/ToolDownload/SWB/swb_doc.html. It allows you to -walk through the establishment of a SMB/CIFS session step by step. -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Additional Resources</title> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>CIFS: Common Insecurities Fail Scrutiny</emphasis> by "Hobbit", - http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/cifs.txt - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Doing the Samba on Windows</emphasis> by Financial Review, - http://afr.com/it/2002/10/01/FFXDF43AP6D.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Implementing CIFS</emphasis> by Christopher R. Hertel, - http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Just What Is SMB?</emphasis> by Richard Sharpe, - http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Opening Windows Everywhere</emphasis> by Mike Warfield, - http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/samba_01.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>SMB HOWTO</emphasis> by David Wood, - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>SMB/CIFS by The Root</emphasis> by "ledin", - http://www.phrack.org/phrack/60/p60-0x0b.txt - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>The Story of Samba</emphasis> by Christopher R. Hertel, - http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/samba_01.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>The Unofficial Samba HOWTO</emphasis> by David Lechnyr, - http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/ - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Understanding the Network Neighborhood</emphasis> by Christopher R. Hertel, - http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-05/smb_01.html - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <emphasis>Using Samba as a PDC</emphasis> by Andrew Bartlett, - http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-02/samba_01.html - </para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>Epilogue</title> - -<para><emphasis> -"What's fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any taste when they -did it. Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, -but internally it's just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft -and who have had years of experience, just don't know how it works internally. -Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it's such a -mess that fixing one bug might just break a hundred programs that depend on -that bug. And Microsoft isn't interested in anyone fixing bugs -- they're interested -in making money. They don't have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an -operating system. -</emphasis></para> - -<para><emphasis> -People inside Microsoft know it's a bad operating system and they still -continue obviously working on it because they want to get the next version out -because they want to have all these new features to sell more copies of the -system. -</emphasis></para> - -<para><emphasis> -The problem with that is that over time, when you have this kind of approach, -and because nobody understands it, because nobody REALLY fixes bugs (other than -when they're really obvious), the end result is really messy. You can't trust -it because under certain circumstances it just spontaneously reboots or just -halts in the middle of something that shouldn't be strange. Normally it works -fine and then once in a blue moon for some completely unknown reason, it's dead, -and nobody knows why. Not Microsoft, not the experienced user and certainly -not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking -"What did I do wrong?" when they didn't do anything wrong at all. -</emphasis></para> - -<para><emphasis> -That's what's really irritating to me." -</emphasis></para> - -<para> --- Linus Torvalds, from an interview with BOOT Magazine, Sept 1998 -(http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/boot.txt) -</para> - -</sect1> +</sect2> -<sect1> +<sect2> <title>Miscellaneous</title> <para> -This chapter was lovingly handcrafted on a Dell Latitude C400 laptop running Slackware Linux 9.0, -in case anyone asks. -</para> - -<para> -This chapter is Copyright © 2003 David Lechnyr (david at lechnyr dot com). -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms -of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free -Software Foundation. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt. +This chapter is Copyright © 2003 David Lechnyr. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt. </para> +</sect2> </sect1> </chapter> diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/PolicyMgmt.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/PolicyMgmt.sgml index a6c5ffa8e4..7557d496a4 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/PolicyMgmt.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/PolicyMgmt.sgml @@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ exists with NT4 style policy files. <sect3> <title>Administration of Win2K / XP Policies</title> +<procedure> <title>Instructions</title> <para> Instead of using the tool called "The System Policy Editor", commonly called Poledit (from the executable name poledit.exe), GPOs are created and managed using a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in as follows:</para> -<procedure> <step> <para> diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml index 2e5f436769..775e573aed 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-PDC-HOWTO.sgml @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ version of Windows. prompted).</para> </listitem> -<listitem><para><emphasis>Samba</emphasis></para> +<listitem><para><emphasis>Samba</emphasis</para> <para>Joining a samba client to a domain is documented in the <link linkend="domain-member">Domain Member</link> chapter. </para></listitem> diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/ServerType.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/ServerType.sgml index b38a9c097d..7df1eb03fc 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/ServerType.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/ServerType.sgml @@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ automatically demoted to a BDC. <para> At this time Samba is NOT capable of acting as an <emphasis>ADS Domain Controller</emphasis>. -</para> + </sect2> </sect1> -</chapter> diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/samba-doc.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/samba-doc.sgml index c56255d13a..d096cb8a5b 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/samba-doc.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/samba-doc.sgml @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ <othername>SAMBA Team</othername> <affiliation><address><email>samba@samba.org</email></address></affiliation> </author> - <editor>&person.jelmer;</editor> <editor>&person.jht;</editor> + <editor>&person.jelmer;</editor> <editor>&person.jerry;</editor> <pubdate>Sunday 6 April</pubdate> @@ -106,6 +106,5 @@ for various environments. &Diagnosis; &problems; &BUGS; -&MANUALPAGES; </part> </book> |