A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

23. Samba: Linux and Windows File and Printer Sharing

In This Chapter

Introduction to Samba 818

Running Samba Clients 822

Setting Up a Samba Server 826

JumpStart: Configuring a Samba Server Using system-config-samba (Fedora) 827

swat: Configures a Samba Server 830

smb.conf: Manually Configuring a Samba Server 834

smbpasswd and pdbedit: Work with Samba Users and Passwords 821

Troubleshooting 840

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Describe the use, history, and components of Samba

• List capabilities of the Samba Server

• Use a variety of Samba client tools

• Describe Samba authentication methods

• Configure a Samba share for local accounts

• Troubleshoot Samba connections

Samba is a suite of programs that enables ...