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. User and Share security level (for servers not in a domain)
5. Samba as a NT4 or Win2k Primary Domain Controller
5.1. Prerequisite Reading
5.2. Background
5.3. Configuring the Samba Domain Controller
5.4. Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the Domain
5.5. Common Problems and Errors
5.6. System Policies and Profiles
5.7. What other help can I get?
5.8. Domain Control for Windows 9x/ME
5.9. DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt : Windows NT Domain Control & Samba
6. How to Act as a Backup Domain Controller in a Purely Samba Controlled Domain
6.1. Prerequisite Reading
6.2. Background
6.3. What qualifies a Domain Controller on the network?
6.4. Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller to an NT PDC?
6.5. How do I set up a Samba BDC?
7. Samba as a ADS domain member
7.1. Installing the required packages for Debian
7.2. Installing the required packages for RedHat
7.3. Compile Samba
7.4. Setup your /etc/krb5.conf
7.5. Create the computer account
7.6. Test your server setup
7.7. Testing with smbclient
7.8. Notes
8. Samba as a NT4 or Win2k domain member
8.1. Joining an NT Domain with Samba 3.0
8.2. Samba and Windows 2000 Domains
8.3. Why is this better than security = server?
III. Optional configuration
9. Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba
9.1. Agenda
9.2. Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world
9.3. Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking
9.4. How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba
9.5. MS Windows security options and how to configure Samba for seemless integration
9.6. Conclusions
10. UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists
10.1. Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT security dialogs
10.2. How to view file security on a Samba share
10.3. Viewing file ownership
10.4. Viewing file or directory permissions
10.5. Modifying file or directory permissions
10.6. Interaction with the standard Samba create mask parameters
10.7. Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute mapping
11. Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally managed authentication
11.1. Samba and PAM
11.2. Distributed Authentication
11.3. PAM Configuration in smb.conf
12. Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba
12.1. Instructions
13. Printing Support
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Configuration
13.3. The Imprints Toolset
13.4. Diagnosis
14. Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind
14.1. Abstract
14.2. Introduction
14.3. What Winbind Provides
14.4. How Winbind Works
14.5. Installation and Configuration
14.6. Limitations
14.7. Conclusion
15. Improved browsing in samba
15.1. Overview of browsing
15.2. Browsing support in samba
15.3. Problem resolution
15.4. Browsing across subnets
15.5. Setting up a WINS server
15.6. Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP
15.7. Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN
15.8. Forcing samba to be the master
15.9. Making samba the domain master
15.10. Note about broadcast addresses
15.11. Multiple interfaces
16. Stackable VFS modules
16.1. Introduction and configuration
16.2. Included modules
16.3. VFS modules available elsewhere
17. Group mapping HOWTO
18. Samba performance issues
18.1. Comparisons
18.2. Socket options
18.3. Read size
18.4. Max xmit
18.5. Log level
18.6. Read raw
18.7. Write raw
18.8. Slow Clients
18.9. Slow Logins
18.10. Client tuning
19. Creating Group Prolicy Files
19.1. Windows '9x
19.2. Windows NT 4
19.3. Windows 2000/XP
20. Securing Samba
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Using host based protection
20.3. Using interface protection
20.4. Using a firewall
20.5. Using a IPC$ share deny
20.6. Upgrading Samba
IV. Appendixes
21. Portability
21.1. HPUX
21.2. SCO Unix
21.3. DNIX
21.4. RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II
21.5. AIX
22. Samba and other CIFS clients
22.1. Macintosh clients?
22.2. OS2 Client
22.3. Windows for Workgroups
22.4. Windows '95/'98
22.5. Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
23. How to compile SAMBA
23.1. Access Samba source code via CVS
23.2. Accessing the samba sources via rsync and ftp
23.3. Building the Binaries
23.4. Starting the smbd and nmbd
24. Reporting Bugs
24.1. Introduction
24.2. General info
24.3. Debug levels
24.4. Internal errors
24.5. Attaching to a running process
24.6. Patches
25. The samba checklist
25.1. Introduction
25.2. Assumptions
25.3. Tests
25.4. Still having troubles?
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