April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
80 pages
5h 31m
English
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Introduction
Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client/server networking. By supporting this protocol, Samba allows Unix servers to get in on the action, communicating with the same networking protocol as Microsoft Windows products. This book covers Version 2.0 of Samba, and many 2.2 options, but points out which options have been recently added in case you are still running an earlier version.
This pocket reference is aimed at system administrators who have already learned the basics of Samba and related information about Windows clients and domains. If you are new to Samba, we recommend you read Using Samba, by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, and Peter Kelly (O’Reilly). The material in this book comes from two appendixes of Using Samba.
A Samba-enabled Unix machine can masquerade as a server on your Microsoft network and offer the following services:
Sharing one or more filesystems
Sharing printers installed on both the server and its clients
Assisting clients with Network Neighborhood browsing
Authenticating clients logging onto a Windows domain
Providing or assisting with WINS nameserver resolution
Contents
Section 1.2 lists the types of lines you can put in your Samba configuration file, usually named smb.conf.
Section 1.5 lists command-line options and related information for running the Samba daemons, and Section 1.7 lists various commands included ...
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