SAMBA Project Documentation

SAMBA Team

Abstract

Last Update : Wed Jan 15

This book is a collection of HOWTOs added to Samba documentation over the years. I try to ensure that all are current, but sometimes the is a larger job than one person can maintain. The most recent version of this document can be found at http://www.samba.org/ on the "Documentation" page. Please send updates to jerry@samba.org or jelmer@samba.org.

This documentation is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. A copy of the license is included with the Samba source distribution. A copy can be found on-line at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Cheers, jerry

Table of Contents
I. General installation
1. How to Install and Test SAMBA
1.1. Read the man pages
1.2. Building the Binaries
1.3. The all important step
1.4. Create the smb configuration file.
1.5. Test your config file with testparm
1.6. Starting the smbd and nmbd
1.7. Try listing the shares available on your server
1.8. Try connecting with the unix client
1.9. Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client
1.10. What If Things Don't Work?
2. Improved browsing in samba
2.1. Overview of browsing
2.2. Browsing support in samba
2.3. Problem resolution
2.4. Browsing across subnets
2.5. Setting up a WINS server
2.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
2.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
2.8. Forcing samba to be the master
2.9. Making samba the domain master
2.10. Note about broadcast addresses
2.11. Multiple interfaces
3. Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide
3.1. Discussion
3.2. Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter
3.3. Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter
3.4. Use of WINS
3.5. Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines
3.6. Name Resolution Order
4. LanMan and NT Password Encryption in Samba
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Important Notes About Security
4.3. The smbpasswd Command
II. Type of installation
5. User and Share security level (for servers not in a domain)
6. How to Configure Samba as a NT4 Primary Domain Controller
6.1. Prerequisite Reading
6.2. Background
6.3. Configuring the Samba Domain Controller
6.4. Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the Domain
6.5. Common Problems and Errors
6.6. System Policies and Profiles
6.7. What other help can I get?
6.8. Domain Control for Windows 9x/ME
6.9. DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt : Windows NT Domain Control & Samba
7. How to Act as a Backup Domain Controller in a Purely Samba Controlled Domain
7.1. Prerequisite Reading
7.2. Background
7.3. What qualifies a Domain Controller on the network?
7.4. Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller?
7.5. How do I set up a Samba BDC?
8. Samba as a ADS domain member
8.1. Installing the required packages for Debian
8.2. Installing the required packages for RedHat
8.3. Compile Samba
8.4. Setup your /etc/krb5.conf
8.5. Create the computer account
8.6. Test your server setup
8.7. Testing with smbclient
8.8. Notes
9. Samba as a NT4 domain member
9.1. Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2.2
9.2. Samba and Windows 2000 Domains
9.3. Why is this better than security = server?
III. Optional configuration
10. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba
10.1. Agenda
10.2. Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world
10.3. Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
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
10.6. 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
11.5. 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
14. Printing Support
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Configuration
14.3. The Imprints Toolset
14.4. Diagnosis
15. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
15.1. Abstract
15.2. Introduction
15.3. What Winbind Provides
15.4. How Winbind Works
15.5. Installation and Configuration
15.6. Limitations
15.7. Conclusion
16. Passdb MySQL plugin
16.1. Building
16.2. Configuring
16.3. Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password
16.4. Getting non-column data from the table
17. Passdb XML plugin
17.1. Building
17.2. Usage
18. Stackable VFS modules
18.1. Introduction and configuration
18.2. Included modules
18.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
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
19.6. 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
21. Group mapping HOWTO
22. Samba performance issues
22.1. Comparisons
22.2. Socket options
22.3. Read size
22.4. Max xmit
22.5. Log level
22.6. Read raw
22.7. Write raw
22.8. Slow Clients
22.9. Slow Logins
22.10. Client tuning
IV. Appendixes
23. Portability
23.1. HPUX
23.2. SCO Unix
23.3. DNIX
23.4. RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II
24. Samba and other CIFS clients
24.1. Macintosh clients?
24.2. OS2 Client
24.3. Windows for Workgroups
24.4. Windows '95/'98
24.5. Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
25. Reporting Bugs
25.1. Introduction
25.2. General info
25.3. Debug levels
25.4. Internal errors
25.5. Attaching to a running process
25.6. Patches
26. Diagnosing your samba server
26.1. Introduction
26.2. Assumptions
26.3. Tests
26.4. Still having troubles?
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