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Type of installation</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN600" ></A ><H1 >Introduction</H1 ><P >Samba can operate in various SMB networks. This part contains information on configuring samba for various environments.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="servertype.html" >Nomenclature of Server Types</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="servertype.html#AEN629" >Stand Alone Server</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="servertype.html#AEN635" >Domain Member Server</A ></DT ><DT >4.3. <A HREF="servertype.html#AEN641" >Domain Controller</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.3.1. <A HREF="servertype.html#AEN644" >Domain Controller Types</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="securitylevels.html" >Samba as Stand-Alone server (User and Share security level)</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html" >Samba as an NT4 or Win2k Primary Domain Controller</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN705" >Prerequisite Reading</A ></DT ><DT >6.2. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN710" >Background</A ></DT ><DT >6.3. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN748" >Configuring the Samba Domain Controller</A ></DT ><DT >6.4. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN790" >Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the Domain</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.4.1. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN833" >Manual Creation of Machine Trust Accounts</A ></DT ><DT >6.4.2. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN874" >"On-the-Fly" Creation of Machine Trust Accounts</A ></DT ><DT >6.4.3. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN883" >Joining the Client to the Domain</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6.5. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN898" >Common Problems and Errors</A ></DT ><DT >6.6. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN946" >System Policies and Profiles</A ></DT ><DT >6.7. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN990" >What other help can I get?</A ></DT ><DT >6.8. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN1104" >Domain Control for Windows 9x/ME</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.8.1. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN1130" >Configuration Instructions: Network Logons</A ></DT ><DT >6.8.2. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN1149" >Configuration Instructions: Setting up Roaming User Profiles</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6.9. <A HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN1242" >DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt : Windows NT Domain Control & Samba</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >7. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html" >How to Act as a Backup Domain Controller in a Purely Samba Controlled Domain</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1278" >Prerequisite Reading</A ></DT ><DT >7.2. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1282" >Background</A ></DT ><DT >7.3. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1290" >What qualifies a Domain Controller on the network?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.3.1. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1293" >How does a Workstation find its domain controller?</A ></DT ><DT >7.3.2. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1296" >When is the PDC needed?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >7.4. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1299" >Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller to an NT PDC?</A ></DT ><DT >7.5. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1304" >How do I set up a Samba BDC?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.5.1. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1321" >How do I replicate the smbpasswd file?</A ></DT ><DT >7.5.2. <A HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1325" >Can I do this all with LDAP?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="ads.html" >Samba as a ADS domain member</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >8.1. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1343" >Installing the required packages for Debian</A ></DT ><DT >8.2. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1350" >Installing the required packages for RedHat</A ></DT ><DT >8.3. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1360" >Compile Samba</A ></DT ><DT >8.4. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1375" >Setup your /etc/krb5.conf</A ></DT ><DT >8.5. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1385" >Create the computer account</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >8.5.1. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1389" >Possible errors</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8.6. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1397" >Test your server setup</A ></DT ><DT >8.7. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1402" >Testing with smbclient</A ></DT ><DT >8.8. <A HREF="ads.html#AEN1405" >Notes</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9. <A HREF="domain-security.html" >Samba as a NT4 or Win2k domain member</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1427" >Joining an NT Domain with Samba 3.0</A ></DT ><DT >9.2. <A HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1482" >Samba and Windows 2000 Domains</A ></DT ><DT >9.3. <A HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1485" >Why is this better than security = server?</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="passdb.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="servertype.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >User information database</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Nomenclature of Server 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