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Optional configuration</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN1503" ></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 >10. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html" >Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1517" >Agenda</A ></DT ><DT >10.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1539" >Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.2.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1555" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/hosts</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1571" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/resolv.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1582" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/host.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1590" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/nsswitch.conf</TT ></A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1602" >Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.3.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1614" >The NetBIOS Name Cache</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1619" >The LMHOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1627" >HOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1632" >DNS Lookup</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1635" >WINS Lookup</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1647" >How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba</A ></DT ><DT >10.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1657" >MS Windows security options and how to configure Samba for seemless integration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.5.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1685" >Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server</A ></DT ><DT >10.5.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1693" >Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain</A ></DT ><DT >10.5.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1710" >Configure Samba as an authentication server</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.6. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1727" >Conclusions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >11. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html" >UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >11.1. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1748" >Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs</A ></DT ><DT >11.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1752" >How to view file security on a Samba share</A ></DT ><DT >11.3. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1763" >Viewing file ownership</A ></DT ><DT >11.4. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1783" >Viewing file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >11.4.1. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1798" >File Permissions</A ></DT ><DT >11.4.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1812" >Directory Permissions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >11.5. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1819" >Modifying file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DT >11.6. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1841" >Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters</A ></DT ><DT >11.7. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1905" >Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute mapping</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >12. <A HREF="pam.html" >Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >12.1. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1926" >Samba and PAM</A ></DT ><DT >12.2. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1970" >Distributed Authentication</A ></DT ><DT >12.3. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1977" >PAM Configuration in smb.conf</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >13. <A HREF="msdfs.html" >Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.1. <A HREF="msdfs.html#AEN1997" >Instructions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.1.1. <A HREF="msdfs.html#AEN2032" >Notes</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >14. <A HREF="printing.html" >Printing Support</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2058" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2080" >Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.2.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2088" >Creating [print$]</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2123" >Setting Drivers for Existing Printers</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2139" >Support a large number of printers</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2150" >Adding New Printers via the Windows NT APW</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2180" >Samba and Printer Ports</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2188" >The Imprints Toolset</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.3.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2192" >What is Imprints?</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2202" >Creating Printer Driver Packages</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2205" >The Imprints server</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2209" >The Installation Client</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2231" >Diagnosis</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.4.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2233" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2249" >Debugging printer problems</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2258" >What printers do I have?</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2266" >Setting up printcap and print servers</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2294" >Job sent, no output</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.6. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2305" >Job sent, strange output</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.7. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2317" >Raw PostScript printed</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.8. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2320" >Advanced Printing</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.9. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2323" >Real debugging</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >15. <A HREF="cups-printing.html" >CUPS Printing Support</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.1. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2343" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >15.2. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2348" >CUPS - RAW Print Through Mode</A ></DT ><DT >15.3. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2403" >The CUPS Filter Chains</A ></DT ><DT >15.4. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2442" >CUPS Print Drivers and Devices</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.4.1. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2449" >Further printing steps</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15.5. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2519" >Limiting the number of pages users can print</A ></DT ><DT >15.6. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2608" >Advanced Postscript Printing from MS Windows</A ></DT ><DT >15.7. <A HREF="cups-printing.html#AEN2623" >Auto-Deletion of CUPS spool files</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16. <A HREF="winbind.html" >Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2685" >Abstract</A ></DT ><DT >16.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2689" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >16.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2702" >What Winbind Provides</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.3.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2709" >Target Uses</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2713" >How Winbind Works</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.4.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2718" >Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls</A ></DT ><DT >16.4.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2722" >Microsoft Active Directory Services</A ></DT ><DT >16.4.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2725" >Name Service Switch</A ></DT ><DT >16.4.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2741" >Pluggable Authentication Modules</A ></DT ><DT >16.4.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2749" >User and Group ID Allocation</A ></DT ><DT >16.4.6. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2753" >Result Caching</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2756" >Installation and Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.5.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2761" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >16.5.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2774" >Requirements</A ></DT ><DT >16.5.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2788" >Testing Things Out</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16.6. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN3013" >Limitations</A ></DT ><DT >16.7. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN3023" >Conclusion</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >17. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html" >Improved browsing in samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >17.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3033" >Overview of browsing</A ></DT ><DT >17.2. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3038" >Browsing support in samba</A ></DT ><DT >17.3. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3046" >Problem resolution</A ></DT ><DT >17.4. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3055" >Browsing across subnets</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >17.4.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3060" >How does cross subnet browsing work ?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >17.5. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3095" >Setting up a WINS server</A ></DT ><DT >17.6. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3114" >Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP</A ></DT ><DT >17.7. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3132" >Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN</A ></DT ><DT >17.8. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3142" >Forcing samba to be the master</A ></DT ><DT >17.9. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3151" >Making samba the domain master</A ></DT ><DT >17.10. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3169" >Note about broadcast addresses</A ></DT ><DT >17.11. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN3172" >Multiple interfaces</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >18. <A HREF="vfs.html" >Stackable VFS modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3190" >Introduction and configuration</A ></DT ><DT >18.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3199" >Included modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.2.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3201" >audit</A ></DT ><DT >18.2.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3209" >recycle</A ></DT ><DT >18.2.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3246" >netatalk</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >18.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3253" >VFS modules available elsewhere</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.3.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3257" >DatabaseFS</A ></DT ><DT >18.3.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN3265" >vscan</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >19. <A HREF="groupmapping.html" >Group mapping HOWTO</A ></DT ><DT >20. <A HREF="speed.html" >Samba performance issues</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >20.1. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3320" >Comparisons</A ></DT ><DT >20.2. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3326" >Socket options</A ></DT ><DT >20.3. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3333" >Read size</A ></DT ><DT >20.4. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3338" >Max xmit</A ></DT ><DT >20.5. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3343" >Log level</A ></DT ><DT >20.6. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3346" >Read raw</A ></DT ><DT >20.7. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3351" >Write raw</A ></DT ><DT >20.8. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3355" >Slow Clients</A ></DT ><DT >20.9. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3359" >Slow Logins</A ></DT ><DT >20.10. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3362" >Client tuning</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >21. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html" >Creating Group Prolicy Files</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >21.1. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3410" >Windows '9x</A ></DT ><DT >21.2. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3420" >Windows NT 4</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >21.2.1. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3443" >Side bar Notes</A ></DT ><DT >21.2.2. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3447" >Mandatory profiles</A ></DT ><DT >21.2.3. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3450" >moveuser.exe</A ></DT ><DT >21.2.4. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3453" >Get SID</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >21.3. <A HREF="groupprofiles.html#AEN3458" >Windows 2000/XP</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >22. <A HREF="securing-samba.html" >Securing Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >22.1. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3539" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >22.2. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3542" >Using host based protection</A ></DT ><DT >22.3. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3549" >Using interface protection</A ></DT ><DT >22.4. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3558" >Using a firewall</A ></DT ><DT >22.5. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3565" >Using a IPC$ share deny</A ></DT ><DT >22.6. <A HREF="securing-samba.html#AEN3574" >Upgrading Samba</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >23. <A HREF="unicode.html" >Unicode/Charsets</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >23.1. <A HREF="unicode.html#AEN3588" >What are charsets and unicode?</A ></DT ><DT >23.2. <A HREF="unicode.html#AEN3597" >Samba and charsets</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="domain-security.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="samba-howto-collection.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Samba as a NT4 or Win2k domain member</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba</TD 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