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III. Advanced Configuration

Introduction

Samba has several features that you might want or might not want to use. The chapters in this part each cover one specific feature.

Table of Contents
10. System Policies
10.1. Basic System Policy Info
10.1.1. Creating Group Prolicy Files
10.2. Roaming Profiles
10.2.1. Windows NT Configuration
10.2.2. Windows 9X Configuration
10.2.3. Win9X and WinNT Configuration
10.2.4. Windows 9X Profile Setup
10.2.5. Windows NT Workstation 4.0
10.2.6. Windows NT/200x Server
10.2.7. Sharing Profiles between W9x/Me and NT4/200x/XP workstations
10.2.8. Windows NT 4
10.2.9. Windows 2000/XP
11. UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists
11.1. Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs
11.2. How to view file security on a Samba share
11.3. Viewing file ownership
11.4. Viewing file or directory permissions
11.4.1. File Permissions
11.4.2. Directory Permissions
11.5. Modifying file or directory permissions
11.6. Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters
11.7. Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute mapping
12. Group mapping HOWTO
13. Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication
13.1. Samba and PAM
13.2. Distributed Authentication
13.3. PAM Configuration in smb.conf
14. Printing Support
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Configuration
14.2.1. Creating [print$]
14.2.2. Setting Drivers for Existing Printers
14.2.3. Support a large number of printers
14.2.4. Adding New Printers via the Windows NT APW
14.2.5. Samba and Printer Ports
14.3. The Imprints Toolset
14.3.1. What is Imprints?
14.3.2. Creating Printer Driver Packages
14.3.3. The Imprints server
14.3.4. The Installation Client
14.4. Diagnosis
14.4.1. Introduction
14.4.2. Debugging printer problems
14.4.3. What printers do I have?
14.4.4. Setting up printcap and print servers
14.4.5. Job sent, no output
14.4.6. Job sent, strange output
14.4.7. Raw PostScript printed
14.4.8. Advanced Printing
14.4.9. Real debugging
15. CUPS Printing Support
15.1. Introduction
15.2. CUPS - RAW Print Through Mode
15.3. The CUPS Filter Chains
15.4. CUPS Print Drivers and Devices
15.4.1. Further printing steps
15.5. Limiting the number of pages users can print
15.6. Advanced Postscript Printing from MS Windows
15.7. Auto-Deletion of CUPS spool files
16. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
16.1. Abstract
16.2. Introduction
16.3. What Winbind Provides
16.3.1. Target Uses
16.4. How Winbind Works
16.4.1. Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls
16.4.2. Microsoft Active Directory Services
16.4.3. Name Service Switch
16.4.4. Pluggable Authentication Modules
16.4.5. User and Group ID Allocation
16.4.6. Result Caching
16.5. Installation and Configuration
16.5.1. Introduction
16.5.2. Requirements
16.5.3. Testing Things Out
16.6. Limitations
16.7. Conclusion
17. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba
17.1. Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world
17.1.1. /etc/hosts
17.1.2. /etc/resolv.conf
17.1.3. /etc/host.conf
17.1.4. /etc/nsswitch.conf
17.2. Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
17.2.1. The NetBIOS Name Cache
17.2.2. The LMHOSTS file
17.2.3. HOSTS file
17.2.4. DNS Lookup
17.2.5. WINS Lookup
18. Improved browsing in samba
18.1. Overview of browsing
18.2. Browsing support in samba
18.3. Problem resolution
18.4. Browsing across subnets
18.4.1. How does cross subnet browsing work ?
18.5. Setting up a WINS server
18.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
18.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
18.8. Forcing samba to be the master
18.9. Making samba the domain master
18.10. Note about broadcast addresses
18.11. Multiple interfaces
19. Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba
19.1. Instructions
19.1.1. Notes
20. Stackable VFS modules
20.1. Introduction and configuration
20.2. Included modules
20.2.1. audit
20.2.2. recycle
20.2.3. netatalk
20.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
20.3.1. DatabaseFS
20.3.2. vscan
21. Securing Samba
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Using host based protection
21.3. Using interface protection
21.4. Using a firewall
21.5. Using a IPC$ share deny
21.6. Upgrading Samba
22. Unicode/Charsets
22.1. What are charsets and unicode?
22.2. Samba and charsets
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