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I. General installation

Introduction

This part contains general info on how to install samba and how to configure the parts of samba you will most likely need. PLEASE read this.

Table of Contents
1. How to Install and Test SAMBA
1.1. Read the man pages
1.2. Building the Binaries
1.3. The all important step
1.4. Create the smb configuration file.
1.5. Test your config file with testparm
1.6. Starting the smbd and nmbd
1.6.1. Starting from inetd.conf
1.6.2. Alternative: starting it as a daemon
1.7. Try listing the shares available on your server
1.8. Try connecting with the unix client
1.9. Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client
1.10. What If Things Don't Work?
1.10.1. Diagnosing Problems
1.10.2. Scope IDs
1.10.3. Choosing the Protocol Level
1.10.4. Printing from UNIX to a Client PC
1.10.5. Locking
1.10.6. Mapping Usernames
2. Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide
2.1. Discussion
2.2. Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter
2.3. Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter
2.4. Use of WINS
2.5. Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines
2.6. Name Resolution Order
3. User information database
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Important Notes About Security
3.2.1. Advantages of SMB Encryption
3.2.2. Advantages of non-encrypted passwords
3.3. The smbpasswd Command
3.4. Plain text
3.5. TDB
3.6. LDAP
3.6.1. Introduction
3.6.2. Introduction
3.6.3. Supported LDAP Servers
3.6.4. Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount
3.6.5. Configuring Samba with LDAP
3.6.6. Accounts and Groups management
3.6.7. Security and sambaAccount
3.6.8. LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts
3.6.9. Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount
3.7. MySQL
3.7.1. Building
3.7.2. Creating the database
3.7.3. Configuring
3.7.4. Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password
3.7.5. Getting non-column data from the table
3.8. Passdb XML plugin
3.8.1. Building
3.8.2. Usage
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