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Optional configuration</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN1499" ></A ><H1 >Introduction</H1 ><P >Samba has several features that you might want or might not want to use. The chapters in this part each cover one specific feature.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html" >Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1513" >Agenda</A ></DT ><DT >9.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1535" >Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.2.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1551" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/hosts</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >9.2.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1567" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/resolv.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >9.2.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1578" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/host.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >9.2.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1586" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/nsswitch.conf</TT ></A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1598" >Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.3.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1610" >The NetBIOS Name Cache</A ></DT ><DT >9.3.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1615" >The LMHOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >9.3.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1623" >HOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >9.3.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1628" >DNS Lookup</A ></DT ><DT >9.3.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1631" >WINS Lookup</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1643" >How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba</A ></DT ><DT >9.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1653" >MS Windows security options and how to configure Samba for seemless integration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.5.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1681" >Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server</A ></DT ><DT >9.5.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1689" >Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain</A ></DT ><DT >9.5.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1706" >Configure Samba as an authentication server</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9.6. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1723" >Conclusions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html" >UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.1. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1744" >Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs</A ></DT ><DT >10.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1748" >How to view file security on a Samba share</A ></DT ><DT >10.3. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1759" >Viewing file ownership</A ></DT ><DT >10.4. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1779" >Viewing file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.4.1. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1794" >File Permissions</A ></DT ><DT >10.4.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1808" >Directory Permissions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.5. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1815" >Modifying file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DT >10.6. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1837" >Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters</A ></DT ><DT >10.7. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1901" >Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute mapping</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >11. <A HREF="pam.html" >Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >11.1. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1922" >Samba and PAM</A ></DT ><DT >11.2. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1966" >Distributed Authentication</A ></DT ><DT >11.3. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1973" >PAM Configuration in smb.conf</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >12. <A HREF="msdfs.html" >Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >12.1. <A HREF="msdfs.html#AEN1993" >Instructions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >12.1.1. <A HREF="msdfs.html#AEN2028" >Notes</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >13. <A HREF="printing.html" >Printing Support</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2054" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >13.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2076" >Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.2.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2084" >Creating [print$]</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2119" >Setting Drivers for Existing Printers</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2135" >Support a large number of printers</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2146" >Adding New Printers via the Windows NT APW</A ></DT ><DT >13.2.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2176" >Samba and Printer Ports</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2184" >The Imprints Toolset</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.3.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2188" >What is Imprints?</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2198" >Creating Printer Driver Packages</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2201" >The Imprints server</A ></DT ><DT >13.3.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2205" >The Installation Client</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2227" >Diagnosis</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.4.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2229" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2245" >Debugging printer problems</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2254" >What printers do I have?</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2262" >Setting up printcap and print servers</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2290" >Job sent, no output</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.6. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2301" >Job sent, strange output</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.7. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2313" >Raw PostScript printed</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.8. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2316" >Advanced Printing</A ></DT ><DT >13.4.9. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2319" >Real debugging</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >14. <A HREF="winbind.html" >Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2360" >Abstract</A ></DT ><DT >14.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2364" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2377" >What Winbind Provides</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.3.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2384" >Target Uses</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2388" >How Winbind Works</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.4.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2393" >Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2397" >Microsoft Active Directory Services</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2400" >Name Service Switch</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2416" >Pluggable Authentication Modules</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2424" >User and Group ID Allocation</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.6. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2428" >Result Caching</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2431" >Installation and Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.5.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2438" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.5.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2451" >Requirements</A ></DT ><DT >14.5.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2465" >Testing Things Out</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.6. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2680" >Limitations</A ></DT ><DT >14.7. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2690" >Conclusion</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html" >Improved browsing in samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2700" >Overview of browsing</A ></DT ><DT >15.2. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2704" >Browsing support in samba</A ></DT ><DT >15.3. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2713" >Problem resolution</A ></DT ><DT >15.4. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2720" >Browsing across subnets</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.4.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2725" >How does cross subnet browsing work ?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15.5. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2760" >Setting up a WINS server</A ></DT ><DT >15.6. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2779" >Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP</A ></DT ><DT >15.7. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2797" >Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN</A ></DT ><DT >15.8. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2807" >Forcing samba to be the master</A ></DT ><DT >15.9. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2816" >Making samba the domain master</A ></DT ><DT >15.10. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2834" >Note about broadcast addresses</A ></DT ><DT >15.11. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN2837" >Multiple interfaces</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16. <A HREF="vfs.html" >Stackable VFS modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2855" >Introduction and configuration</A ></DT ><DT >16.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2864" >Included modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.2.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2866" >audit</A ></DT ><DT >16.2.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2874" >recycle</A ></DT ><DT >16.2.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2911" >netatalk</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2918" >VFS modules available elsewhere</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.3.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2922" >DatabaseFS</A ></DT ><DT >16.3.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2930" >vscan</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >17. <A HREF="cvs-access.html" >Access Samba source code via CVS</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >17.1. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2942" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >17.2. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2947" >CVS Access to samba.org</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >17.2.1. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2950" >Access via CVSweb</A ></DT ><DT >17.2.2. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2955" >Access via cvs</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >18. <A HREF="groupmapping.html" >Group mapping HOWTO</A ></DT ><DT >19. <A HREF="speed.html" >Samba performance issues</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >19.1. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3033" >Comparisons</A ></DT ><DT >19.2. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3039" >Socket options</A ></DT ><DT >19.3. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3046" >Read size</A ></DT ><DT >19.4. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3051" >Max xmit</A ></DT ><DT >19.5. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3056" >Log level</A ></DT ><DT >19.6. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3059" >Read raw</A ></DT ><DT >19.7. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3064" >Write raw</A ></DT ><DT >19.8. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3068" >Slow Clients</A ></DT ><DT >19.9. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3072" >Slow Logins</A ></DT ><DT >19.10. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3075" >Client tuning</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >20. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html" >Creating Group Profiles</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >20.1. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3123" >Windows '9x</A ></DT ><DT >20.2. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3132" >Windows NT 4</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >20.2.1. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3155" >Side bar Notes</A ></DT ><DT >20.2.2. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3159" >Mandatory profiles</A ></DT ><DT >20.2.3. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3162" >moveuser.exe</A ></DT ><DT >20.2.4. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3165" >Get SID</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >20.3. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3170" >Windows 2000/XP</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV 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