February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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What Can Samba Do?
Now let’s wrap up by showing where Samba can help out and where it is limited. Table 1-9 summarizes which roles Samba can and cannot play in a Windows NT or Active Directory domain or a Windows workgroup. Many of the Windows domain protocols are proprietary and have not been documented by Microsoft and therefore must be reverse-engineered by the Samba team before Samba can support them. As of Version 3.0, Samba cannot act as a backup in most roles and does not yet fully support Active Directory.
Table 1-9. Samba roles (as of Version 3.0)
|
Role |
Can perform? |
|---|---|
|
File server |
Yes |
|
Printer server |
Yes |
|
Microsoft Dfs server |
Yes |
|
Primary domain controller |
Yes |
|
Backup domain controller |
No |
|
Active Directory domain controller |
No |
|
Windows 95/98/Me authentication |
Yes |
|
Windows NT/2000/XP authentication |
Yes |
|
Local master browser |
Yes |
|
Local backup browser |
Yes |
|
Domain master browser |
Yes |
|
Primary WINS server |
Yes |
|
Secondary WINS server |
No |
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