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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
9. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba
9.1. Agenda
9.2. Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world
9.2.1. /etc/hosts
9.2.2. /etc/resolv.conf
9.2.3. /etc/host.conf
9.2.4. /etc/nsswitch.conf
9.3. Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
9.3.1. The NetBIOS Name Cache
9.3.2. The LMHOSTS file
9.3.3. HOSTS file
9.3.4. DNS Lookup
9.3.5. WINS Lookup
9.4. How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba
9.5. MS Windows security options and how to configure Samba for seemless integration
9.5.1. Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server
9.5.2. Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain
9.5.3. Configure Samba as an authentication server
9.6. Conclusions
10. UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists
10.1. Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs
10.2. How to view file security on a Samba share
10.3. Viewing file ownership
10.4. Viewing file or directory permissions
10.4.1. File Permissions
10.4.2. Directory Permissions
10.5. Modifying file or directory permissions
10.6. Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters
10.7. Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute mapping
11. Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication
11.1. Samba and PAM
11.2. Distributed Authentication
11.3. PAM Configuration in smb.conf
12. Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba
12.1. Instructions
12.1.1. Notes
13. Printing Support
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Configuration
13.2.1. Creating [print$]
13.2.2. Setting Drivers for Existing Printers
13.2.3. Support a large number of printers
13.2.4. Adding New Printers via the Windows NT APW
13.2.5. Samba and Printer Ports
13.3. The Imprints Toolset
13.3.1. What is Imprints?
13.3.2. Creating Printer Driver Packages
13.3.3. The Imprints server
13.3.4. The Installation Client
13.4. Diagnosis
13.4.1. Introduction
13.4.2. Debugging printer problems
13.4.3. What printers do I have?
13.4.4. Setting up printcap and print servers
13.4.5. Job sent, no output
13.4.6. Job sent, strange output
13.4.7. Raw PostScript printed
13.4.8. Advanced Printing
13.4.9. Real debugging
14. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
14.1. Abstract
14.2. Introduction
14.3. What Winbind Provides
14.3.1. Target Uses
14.4. How Winbind Works
14.4.1. Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls
14.4.2. Microsoft Active Directory Services
14.4.3. Name Service Switch
14.4.4. Pluggable Authentication Modules
14.4.5. User and Group ID Allocation
14.4.6. Result Caching
14.5. Installation and Configuration
14.5.1. Introduction
14.5.2. Requirements
14.5.3. Testing Things Out
14.6. Limitations
14.7. Conclusion
15. Improved browsing in samba
15.1. Overview of browsing
15.2. Browsing support in samba
15.3. Problem resolution
15.4. Browsing across subnets
15.4.1. How does cross subnet browsing work ?
15.5. Setting up a WINS server
15.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
15.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
15.8. Forcing samba to be the master
15.9. Making samba the domain master
15.10. Note about broadcast addresses
15.11. Multiple interfaces
16. Stackable VFS modules
16.1. Introduction and configuration
16.2. Included modules
16.2.1. audit
16.2.2. recycle
16.2.3. netatalk
16.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
16.3.1. DatabaseFS
16.3.2. vscan
17. Group mapping HOWTO
18. Samba performance issues
18.1. Comparisons
18.2. Socket options
18.3. Read size
18.4. Max xmit
18.5. Log level
18.6. Read raw
18.7. Write raw
18.8. Slow Clients
18.9. Slow Logins
18.10. Client tuning
19. Creating Group Prolicy Files
19.1. Windows '9x
19.2. Windows NT 4
19.2.1. Side bar Notes
19.2.2. Mandatory profiles
19.2.3. moveuser.exe
19.2.4. Get SID
19.3. Windows 2000/XP
20. Securing Samba
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Using host based protection
20.3. Using interface protection
20.4. Using a firewall
20.5. Using a IPC$ share deny
20.6. Upgrading Samba
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