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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. 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. Improved browsing in samba
17.1. Overview of browsing
17.2. Browsing support in samba
17.3. Problem resolution
17.4. Browsing across subnets
17.4.1. How does cross subnet browsing work ?
17.5. Setting up a WINS server
17.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
17.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
17.8. Forcing samba to be the master
17.9. Making samba the domain master
17.10. Note about broadcast addresses
17.11. Multiple interfaces
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. Group mapping HOWTO
20. Samba performance issues
20.1. Comparisons
20.2. Socket options
20.3. Read size
20.4. Max xmit
20.5. Log level
20.6. Read raw
20.7. Write raw
20.8. Slow Clients
20.9. Slow Logins
20.10. Client tuning
21. Creating Group Prolicy Files
21.1. Windows '9x
21.2. Windows NT 4
21.2.1. Side bar Notes
21.2.2. Mandatory profiles
21.2.3. moveuser.exe
21.2.4. Get SID
21.3. Windows 2000/XP
22. Securing Samba
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Using host based protection
22.3. Using interface protection
22.4. Using a firewall
22.5. Using a IPC$ share deny
22.6. Upgrading Samba
23. Unicode/Charsets
23.1. What are charsets and unicode?
23.2. Samba and charsets
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