Using Samba

Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly9781565924499, 1565924495

This book, which has been officially adopted by the Samba team under an open content license, is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration, including such recent additions as integration with Windows NT domains and the SWAT graphic configuration tool. Troubleshooting, security, connectivity, performance, and logging are thoroughly covered with examples in this book. Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Now you can let users store their files (and even important executables) in a single place for easy sharing and backup, protected by Unix or NT security mechanisms, and still offer such transparent access the PC users don’t even realize they’re going to another system. Samba is also open source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

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Table of contents :
oreilly.com……Page 0
Using Samba……Page 1
[Chapter 1] 1.1 Learning Samba……Page 3
[Chapter 1] 1.2 What Can Samba Do For Me?……Page 6
[Chapter 1] 1.3 Getting Familiar with a SMB/CIFS Network……Page 12
[Chapter 1] 1.4 Microsoft Implementations……Page 22
[Chapter 1] 1.5 An Overview of the Samba Distribution……Page 31
[Chapter 1] 1.6 How Can I Get Samba?……Page 33
[Chapter 1] 1.7 What’s New in Samba 2.0?……Page 34
[Chapter 1] 1.8 And That’s Not All………Page 37
[Chapter 2] Installing Samba on a Unix System……Page 38
[Chapter 2] 2.2 Configuring Samba……Page 43
[Chapter 2] 2.3 Compiling and Installing Samba……Page 48
[Chapter 2] 2.4 A Basic Samba Configuration File……Page 52
[Chapter 2] 2.5 Starting the Samba Daemons……Page 59
[Chapter 2] 2.6 Testing the Samba Daemons……Page 63
[Chapter 3] Configuring Windows Clients……Page 65
[Chapter 3] 3.2 Setting Up Windows NT 4.0 Computers……Page 82
[Chapter 3] 3.3 An Introduction to SMB/CIFS……Page 95
[Chapter 4] Disk Shares……Page 104
[Chapter 4] 4.2 Special Sections……Page 112
[Chapter 4] 4.3 Configuration File Options……Page 116
[Chapter 4] 4.4 Server Configuration……Page 120
[Chapter 4] 4.5 Disk Share Configuration……Page 125
[Chapter 4] 4.6 Networking Options with Samba……Page 131
[Chapter 4] 4.7 Virtual Servers……Page 137
[Chapter 4] 4.8 Logging Configuration Options……Page 140
[Chapter 5] Browsing and Advanced Disk Shares……Page 146
[Chapter 5] 5.2 Filesystem Differences……Page 160
[Chapter 5] 5.3 File Permissions and Attributes on MS-DOS and Unix……Page 170
[Chapter 5] 5.4 Name Mangling and Case……Page 179
[Chapter 5] 5.5 Locks and Oplocks……Page 186
[Chapter 6] Users, Security, and Domains……Page 194
[Chapter 6] 6.2 Controlling Access to Shares……Page 199
[Chapter 6] 6.3 Authentication Security……Page 204
[Chapter 6] 6.4 Passwords……Page 213
[Chapter 6] 6.5 Windows Domains……Page 223
[Chapter 6] 6.6 Logon Scripts……Page 233
[Chapter 7] Printing and Name Resolution……Page 243
[Chapter 7] 7.2 Printing to Windows Client Printers……Page 257
[Chapter 7] 7.3 Name Resolution with Samba……Page 270
[Chapter 8] Additional Samba Information……Page 278
[Chapter 8] 8.2 Magic Scripts……Page 282
[Chapter 8] 8.3 Internationalization……Page 284
[Chapter 8] 8.4 WinPopup Messages……Page 289
[Chapter 8] 8.5 Recently Added Options……Page 292
[Chapter 8] 8.6 Miscellaneous Options……Page 295
[Chapter 8] 8.7 Backups with smbtar……Page 304
[Chapter 9] Troubleshooting Samba……Page 309
[Chapter 9] 9.2 The Fault Tree……Page 316
[Chapter 9] 9.3 Extra Resources……Page 343
[Appendix A] Configuring Samba with SSL……Page 346
[Appendix A] A.2 Requirements……Page 349
[Appendix A] A.3 Installing SSLeay……Page 351
[Appendix A] A.4 Setting Up SSL Proxy……Page 360
[Appendix A] A.5 SSL Configuration Options……Page 362
[Appendix B] Samba Performance Tuning……Page 369
[Appendix B] B.2 Samba Tuning……Page 372
[Appendix B] B.3 Sizing Samba Servers……Page 380
[Appendix C] Samba Configuration Option Quick Reference……Page 389
Appendix D……Page 434
[Appendix E] Downloading Samba with CVS……Page 458
[Appendix F] Sample Configuration File……Page 460