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. Obtaining and installing samba
1.2. Configuring samba
1.3. Try listing the shares available on your server
1.4. Try connecting with the unix client
1.5. Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client
1.6. What If Things Don't Work?
2. Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide
2.1. Discussion
2.2. Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter
2.3. Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter
2.4. Use of WINS
2.5. Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines
2.6. Name Resolution Order
3. User information database
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Important Notes About Security
3.3. The smbpasswd Command
3.4. Plain text
3.5. TDB
3.6. LDAP
3.7. MySQL
3.8. Passdb XML plugin
II. Type of installation
4. Nomenclature of Server Types
4.1. Stand Alone Server
4.2. Domain Member Server
4.3. Domain Controller
5. Samba as Stand-Alone server (User and Share security level)
6. Samba as an NT4 or Win2k 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 to an NT PDC?
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 or Win2k domain member
9.1. Joining an NT Domain with Samba 3.0
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. CUPS Printing Support
15.1. Introduction
15.2. CUPS - RAW Print Through Mode
15.3. The CUPS Filter Chains
15.4. CUPS Print Drivers and Devices
15.5. Limiting the number of pages users can print
15.6. Advanced Postscript Printing from MS Windows
15.7. Auto-Deletion of CUPS spool files
16. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
16.1. Abstract
16.2. Introduction
16.3. What Winbind Provides
16.4. How Winbind Works
16.5. Installation and Configuration
16.6. Limitations
16.7. Conclusion
17. Improved browsing in samba
17.1. Overview of browsing
17.2. Browsing support in samba
17.3. Problem resolution
17.4. Browsing across subnets
17.5. Setting up a WINS server
17.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
17.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
17.8. Forcing samba to be the master
17.9. Making samba the domain master
17.10. Note about broadcast addresses
17.11. Multiple interfaces
18. Stackable VFS modules
18.1. Introduction and configuration
18.2. Included modules
18.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
19. Group mapping HOWTO
20. Samba performance issues
20.1. Comparisons
20.2. Socket options
20.3. Read size
20.4. Max xmit
20.5. Log level
20.6. Read raw
20.7. Write raw
20.8. Slow Clients
20.9. Slow Logins
20.10. Client tuning
21. Creating Group Prolicy Files
21.1. Windows '9x
21.2. Windows NT 4
21.3. Windows 2000/XP
22. Securing Samba
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Using host based protection
22.3. Using interface protection
22.4. Using a firewall
22.5. Using a IPC$ share deny
22.6. Upgrading Samba
23. Unicode/Charsets
23.1. What are charsets and unicode?
23.2. Samba and charsets
IV. Appendixes
24. Portability
24.1. HPUX
24.2. SCO Unix
24.3. DNIX
24.4. RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II
24.5. AIX
25. Samba and other CIFS clients
25.1. Macintosh clients?
25.2. OS2 Client
25.3. Windows for Workgroups
25.4. Windows '95/'98
25.5. Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
26. How to compile SAMBA
26.1. Access Samba source code via CVS
26.2. Accessing the samba sources via rsync and ftp
26.3. Building the Binaries
26.4. Starting the smbd and nmbd
27. Reporting Bugs
27.1. Introduction
27.2. General info
27.3. Debug levels
27.4. Internal errors
27.5. Attaching to a running process
27.6. Patches
28. The samba checklist
28.1. Introduction
28.2. Assumptions
28.3. Tests
28.4. Still having troubles?
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