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III. Optional 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. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba
10.1. Agenda
10.2. Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world
10.2.1. /etc/hosts
10.2.2. /etc/resolv.conf
10.2.3. /etc/host.conf
10.2.4. /etc/nsswitch.conf
10.3. Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
10.3.1. The NetBIOS Name Cache
10.3.2. The LMHOSTS file
10.3.3. HOSTS file
10.3.4. DNS Lookup
10.3.5. WINS Lookup
10.4. How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba
10.5. MS Windows security options and how to configure Samba for seemless integration
10.5.1. Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server
10.5.2. Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain
10.5.3. Configure Samba as an authentication server
10.6. Conclusions
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. Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication
12.1. Samba and PAM
12.2. Distributed Authentication
12.3. PAM Configuration in smb.conf
13. Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba
13.1. Instructions
13.1.1. Notes
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. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
15.1. Abstract
15.2. Introduction
15.3. What Winbind Provides
15.3.1. Target Uses
15.4. How Winbind Works
15.4.1. Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls
15.4.2. Name Service Switch
15.4.3. Pluggable Authentication Modules
15.4.4. User and Group ID Allocation
15.4.5. Result Caching
15.5. Installation and Configuration
15.5.1. Introduction
15.5.2. Requirements
15.5.3. Testing Things Out
15.6. Limitations
15.7. Conclusion
16. Passdb MySQL plugin
16.1. Building
16.2. Configuring
16.3. Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password
16.4. Getting non-column data from the table
17. Passdb XML plugin
17.1. Building
17.2. Usage
18. Stackable VFS modules
18.1. Introduction and configuration
18.2. Included modules
18.2.1. audit
18.2.2. recycle
18.2.3. netatalk
18.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
18.3.1. DatabaseFS
18.3.2. vscan
19. Storing Samba's User/Machine Account information in an LDAP Directory
19.1. Purpose
19.2. Introduction
19.3. Supported LDAP Servers
19.4. Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount
19.5. Configuring Samba with LDAP
19.5.1. OpenLDAP configuration
19.5.2. Configuring Samba
19.6. Accounts and Groups management
19.7. Security and sambaAccount
19.8. LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts
19.9. Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount
19.10. Comments
20. HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS
20.1. Introduction
20.2. CVS Access to samba.org
20.2.1. Access via CVSweb
20.2.2. Access via cvs
21. Group mapping HOWTO
22. Samba performance issues
22.1. Comparisons
22.2. Socket options
22.3. Read size
22.4. Max xmit
22.5. Log level
22.6. Read raw
22.7. Write raw
22.8. Slow Clients
22.9. Slow Logins
22.10. Client tuning
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