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General installation</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN20" ></A ><H1 >Introduction</H1 ><P >This part contains general info on how to install samba and how to configure the parts of samba you will most likely need. PLEASE read this.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="install.html" >How to Install and Test SAMBA</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN25" >Read the man pages</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN35" >Building the Binaries</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="install.html#AEN63" >The all important step</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="install.html#AEN67" >Create the smb configuration file.</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="install.html#AEN81" >Test your config file with <B CLASS="COMMAND" >testparm</B ></A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="install.html#AEN89" >Starting the smbd and nmbd</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.6.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN99" >Starting from inetd.conf</A ></DT ><DT >1.6.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN128" >Alternative: starting it as a daemon</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >1.7. <A HREF="install.html#AEN144" >Try listing the shares available on your server</A ></DT ><DT >1.8. <A HREF="install.html#AEN153" >Try connecting with the unix client</A ></DT ><DT >1.9. <A HREF="install.html#AEN169" >Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client</A ></DT ><DT >1.10. <A HREF="install.html#AEN183" >What If Things Don't Work?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.10.1. <A HREF="install.html#AEN188" >Diagnosing Problems</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.2. <A HREF="install.html#AEN192" >Scope IDs</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.3. <A HREF="install.html#AEN195" >Choosing the Protocol Level</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.4. <A HREF="install.html#AEN204" >Printing from UNIX to a Client PC</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.5. <A HREF="install.html#AEN209" >Locking</A ></DT ><DT >1.10.6. <A HREF="install.html#AEN218" >Mapping Usernames</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html" >Improved browsing in samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN228" >Overview of browsing</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN232" >Browsing support in samba</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN241" >Problem resolution</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN248" >Browsing across subnets</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.4.1. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN253" >How does cross subnet browsing work ?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN288" >Setting up a WINS server</A ></DT ><DT >2.6. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN307" >Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP</A ></DT ><DT >2.7. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN325" >Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN</A ></DT ><DT >2.8. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN335" >Forcing samba to be the master</A ></DT ><DT >2.9. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN344" >Making samba the domain master</A ></DT ><DT >2.10. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN362" >Note about broadcast addresses</A ></DT ><DT >2.11. <A HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN365" >Multiple interfaces</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="oplocks.html" >Oplocks</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="oplocks.html#AEN377" >What are oplocks?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html" >Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN392" >Discussion</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN400" >Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter</A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN414" >Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter</A ></DT ><DT >4.4. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN419" >Use of WINS</A ></DT ><DT >4.5. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN430" >Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines</A ></DT ><DT >4.6. <A HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN436" >Name Resolution Order</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html" >LanMan and NT Password Encryption in Samba</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN472" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN477" >Important Notes About Security</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.2.1. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN496" >Advantages of SMB Encryption</A ></DT ><DT >5.2.2. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN503" >Advantages of non-encrypted passwords</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN512" >The smbpasswd Command</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="samba-howto-collection.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="install.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SAMBA Project Documentation</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How to Install and Test SAMBA</TD ></TR 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