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Optional configuration</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN1360"><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#AEN1374" >Agenda</A ></DT ><DT >10.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1396" >Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.2.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1412" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/hosts</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1428" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/resolv.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1439" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/host.conf</TT ></A ></DT ><DT >10.2.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1447" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/nsswitch.conf</TT ></A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1459" >Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >10.3.1. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1471" >The NetBIOS Name Cache</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1476" >The LMHOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1484" >HOSTS file</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1489" >DNS Lookup</A ></DT ><DT >10.3.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1492" >WINS Lookup</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.4. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1504" >How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba</A ></DT ><DT >10.5. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1514" >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#AEN1542" >Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server</A ></DT ><DT >10.5.2. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1550" >Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain</A ></DT ><DT >10.5.3. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1567" >Configure Samba as an authentication server</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10.6. <A HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1584" >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#AEN1605" >Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs</A ></DT ><DT >11.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1614" >How to view file security on a Samba share</A ></DT ><DT >11.3. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1625" >Viewing file ownership</A ></DT ><DT >11.4. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1645" >Viewing file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >11.4.1. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1660" >File Permissions</A ></DT ><DT >11.4.2. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1674" >Directory Permissions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >11.5. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1681" >Modifying file or directory permissions</A ></DT ><DT >11.6. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1703" >Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters</A ></DT ><DT >11.7. <A HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1767" >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#AEN1788" >Samba and PAM</A ></DT ><DT >12.2. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1832" >Distributed Authentication</A ></DT ><DT >12.3. <A HREF="pam.html#AEN1839" >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#AEN1859" >Instructions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >13.1.1. <A HREF="msdfs.html#AEN1894" >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#AEN1920" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN1942" >Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.2.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN1950" >Creating [print$]</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN1985" >Setting Drivers for Existing Printers</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2001" >Support a large number of printers</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2012" >Adding New Printers via the Windows NT APW</A ></DT ><DT >14.2.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2042" >Samba and Printer Ports</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2050" >The Imprints Toolset</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.3.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2054" >What is Imprints?</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2064" >Creating Printer Driver Packages</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2067" >The Imprints server</A ></DT ><DT >14.3.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2071" >The Installation Client</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >14.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2093" >Diagnosis</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >14.4.1. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2095" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.2. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2111" >Debugging printer problems</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.3. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2120" >What printers do I have?</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.4. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2128" >Setting up printcap and print servers</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.5. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2156" >Job sent, no output</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.6. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2167" >Job sent, strange output</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.7. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2179" >Raw PostScript printed</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.8. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2182" >Advanced Printing</A ></DT ><DT >14.4.9. <A HREF="printing.html#AEN2185" >Real debugging</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >15. <A HREF="winbind.html" >Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2225" >Abstract</A ></DT ><DT >15.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2229" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >15.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2242" >What Winbind Provides</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.3.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2249" >Target Uses</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2253" >How Winbind Works</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.4.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2258" >Microsoft Remote Procedure Calls</A ></DT ><DT >15.4.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2262" >Name Service Switch</A ></DT ><DT >15.4.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2278" >Pluggable Authentication Modules</A ></DT ><DT >15.4.4. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2286" >User and Group ID Allocation</A ></DT ><DT >15.4.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2290" >Result Caching</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15.5. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2293" >Installation and Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >15.5.1. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2300" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >15.5.2. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2313" >Requirements</A ></DT ><DT >15.5.3. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2327" >Testing Things Out</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >15.6. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2542" >Limitations</A ></DT ><DT >15.7. <A HREF="winbind.html#AEN2552" >Conclusion</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >16. <A HREF="pdb-mysql.html" >Passdb MySQL plugin</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >16.1. <A HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2566" >Building</A ></DT ><DT >16.2. <A HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2572" >Configuring</A ></DT ><DT >16.3. <A HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2589" >Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password</A ></DT ><DT >16.4. <A HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2594" >Getting non-column data from the table</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >17. <A HREF="pdb-xml.html" >Passdb XML plugin</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >17.1. <A HREF="pdb-xml.html#AEN2613" >Building</A ></DT ><DT >17.2. <A HREF="pdb-xml.html#AEN2619" >Usage</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >18. <A HREF="vfs.html" >Stackable VFS modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2640" >Introduction and configuration</A ></DT ><DT >18.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2649" >Included modules</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.2.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2651" >audit</A ></DT ><DT >18.2.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2659" >recycle</A ></DT ><DT >18.2.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2696" >netatalk</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >18.3. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2703" >VFS modules available elsewhere</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >18.3.1. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2707" >DatabaseFS</A ></DT ><DT >18.3.2. <A HREF="vfs.html#AEN2715" >vscan</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >19. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html" >Storing Samba's User/Machine Account information in an LDAP Directory</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >19.1. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2737" >Purpose</A ></DT ><DT >19.2. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2757" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >19.3. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2786" >Supported LDAP Servers</A ></DT ><DT >19.4. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2791" >Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount</A ></DT ><DT >19.5. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2803" >Configuring Samba with LDAP</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >19.5.1. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2805" >OpenLDAP configuration</A ></DT ><DT >19.5.2. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2822" >Configuring Samba</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >19.6. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2850" >Accounts and Groups management</A ></DT ><DT >19.7. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2855" >Security and sambaAccount</A ></DT ><DT >19.8. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2875" >LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts</A ></DT ><DT >19.9. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2945" >Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount</A ></DT ><DT >19.10. <A HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2953" >Comments</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >20. <A HREF="cvs-access.html" >HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >20.1. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2964" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >20.2. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2969" >CVS Access to samba.org</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >20.2.1. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2972" >Access via CVSweb</A ></DT ><DT >20.2.2. <A HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2977" >Access via cvs</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >21. <A HREF="groupmapping.html" >Group mapping HOWTO</A ></DT ><DT >22. <A HREF="speed.html" >Samba performance issues</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >22.1. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3055" >Comparisons</A ></DT ><DT >22.2. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3061" >Socket options</A ></DT ><DT >22.3. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3068" >Read size</A ></DT ><DT >22.4. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3073" >Max xmit</A ></DT ><DT >22.5. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3078" >Log level</A ></DT ><DT >22.6. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3081" >Read raw</A ></DT ><DT >22.7. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3086" >Write raw</A ></DT ><DT >22.8. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3090" >Slow Clients</A ></DT ><DT >22.9. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3094" >Slow Logins</A ></DT ><DT >22.10. <A HREF="speed.html#AEN3097" >Client tuning</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" 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