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General installation</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN21" ></A ><H1 >Introduction</H1 ><P >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.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="install.html" >How to Install and Test SAMBA</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN26" >Read the man pages</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN36" >Building the Binaries</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="install.html#AEN64" >The all important step</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="install.html#AEN68" >Create the smb configuration file.</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="install.html#AEN82" >Test your config file with <B CLASS="COMMAND" >testparm</B ></A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="install.html#AEN90" >Starting the smbd and nmbd</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.6.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN100" >Starting from inetd.conf</A ></DT ><DT >1.6.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN129" >Alternative: starting it as a daemon</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >1.7. <A HREF="install.html#AEN145" >Try listing the shares available on your server</A ></DT ><DT >1.8. <A HREF="install.html#AEN154" >Try connecting with the unix client</A ></DT ><DT >1.9. <A HREF="install.html#AEN170" >Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client</A ></DT ><DT >1.10. <A HREF="install.html#AEN184" >What If Things Don't Work?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.10.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN189" >Diagnosing Problems</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN193" >Scope IDs</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.3. <A HREF="install.html#AEN196" >Choosing the Protocol Level</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.4. <A HREF="install.html#AEN205" >Printing from UNIX to a Client PC</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.5. <A HREF="install.html#AEN210" >Locking</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.6. <A HREF="install.html#AEN219" >Mapping Usernames</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html" >Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN230" >Discussion</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN238" >Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN252" >Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN257" >Use of WINS</A ></DT ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN268" >Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines</A ></DT ><DT >2.6. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN274" >Name Resolution Order</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="passdb.html" >User information database</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN324" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN331" >Important Notes About Security</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.2.1. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN346" >Advantages of SMB Encryption</A ></DT ><DT >3.2.2. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN351" >Advantages of non-encrypted passwords</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN357" >The smbpasswd Command</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN388" >Plain text</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN393" >TDB</A ></DT ><DT >3.6. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN396" >LDAP</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.6.1. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN398" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.2. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN418" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.3. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN447" >Supported LDAP Servers</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.4. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN452" >Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.5. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN464" >Configuring Samba with LDAP</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.6. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN511" >Accounts and Groups management</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.7. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN516" >Security and sambaAccount</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.8. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN536" >LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts</A ></DT ><DT >3.6.9. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN606" >Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3.7. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN614" >MySQL</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.7.1. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN616" >Building</A ></DT ><DT >3.7.2. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN622" >Creating the database</A ></DT ><DT >3.7.3. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN632" >Configuring</A ></DT ><DT >3.7.4. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN649" >Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password</A ></DT ><DT >3.7.5. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN654" >Getting non-column data from the table</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3.8. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN662" >Passdb XML plugin</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.8.1. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN664" >Building</A ></DT ><DT >3.8.2. <A HREF="passdb.html#AEN670" >Usage</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="samba-howto-collection.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="samba-howto-collection.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="install.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD 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