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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. Security levels
15.1. Introduction
15.2. More complete description of security levels
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. Name Service Switch
16.4.3. Pluggable Authentication Modules
16.4.4. User and Group ID Allocation
16.4.5. 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. Passdb MySQL plugin
17.1. Building
17.2. Configuring
17.3. Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password
17.4. Getting non-column data from the table
18. Passdb XML plugin
18.1. Building
18.2. Usage
19. Storing Samba's User/Machine Account information in an LDAP Directory
19.1. Purpose
19.2. Introduction
19.3. Supported LDAP Servers
19.4. Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount
19.5. Configuring Samba with LDAP
19.5.1. OpenLDAP configuration
19.5.2. Configuring Samba
19.6. Accounts and Groups management
19.7. Security and sambaAccount
19.8. LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts
19.9. Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount
19.10. Comments
20. HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS
20.1. Introduction
20.2. CVS Access to samba.org
20.2.1. Access via CVSweb
20.2.2. Access via cvs
21. Group mapping HOWTO
22. Samba performance issues
22.1. Comparisons
22.2. Oplocks
22.2.1. Overview
22.2.2. Level2 Oplocks
22.2.3. Old 'fake oplocks' option - deprecated
22.3. Socket options
22.4. Read size
22.5. Max xmit
22.6. Locking
22.7. Share modes
22.8. Log level
22.9. Wide lines
22.10. Read raw
22.11. Write raw
22.12. Read prediction
22.13. Memory mapping
22.14. Slow Clients
22.15. Slow Logins
22.16. Client tuning
22.17. My Results
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