February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Chapter 1 introduces Samba and its capabilities, then describes the most important concepts of NetBIOS and SMB/CIFS networking. Finally, we give you a quick overview of the daemons and utilities that are included in the Samba distribution.
Chapter 2 covers configuring, compiling, installing, setting up, and testing the Samba server on a Unix platform.
Chapter 3 explains how to configure Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP clients to participate in an SMB network.
Chapter 4 explains the ins and outs of Windows NT domains and how to configure Samba to work in a network set up as a Windows NT domain.
Chapter 5 describes methods for accessing SMB shares on the network from Unix client systems.
Chapter 6 gets you up to speed on the structure of the Samba configuration file and shows you how to take control of file-sharing services.
Chapter 7 introduces name resolution, which is used to convert NetBIOS computer names into IP addresses, and browsing, the method used in SMB networking to find what resources are being shared on the network.
Chapter 8 continues the discussion of file-sharing options, and covers more advanced functions such as permissions, access control lists, opportunistic locks, and setting up a Distributed filesystem tree.
Chapter 9 discusses how to set up Samba users, introduces you to Samba security, and shows you how to work with encrypted and nonencrypted passwords.
Chapter 10 discusses printer ...
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