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Using Samba
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Using Samba

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
November 1999
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix A. Configuring Samba with SSL

This appendix describes how to set up Samba to use secure connections between the Samba server and its clients. The protocol used here is Netscape’s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). For this example, we will establish a secure connection between a Samba server and a Windows NT workstation.

Before we begin, we will assume that you are familiar with the fundamentals of public-key cryptography and X.509 certificates. If not, we highly recommend Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition (Wiley) as the premiere source for learning the many secret faces of cryptography.

Tip

If you would like more information on Samba and SSL, be sure to look at the document SSLeay.txt in the docs/textdocs directory of the Samba distribution, which is the basis for this appendix.

About Certificates

Here are a few quick questions and answers from the SSLeay.txt file in the Samba documentation, regarding the benefits of SSL and certificates. This text was written by Christian Starkjohann for the Samba projects.

What is a Certificate?

A certificate is issued by an issuer, usually a Certification Authority (CA), who confirms something by issuing the certificate. The subject of this confirmation depends on the CA’s policy. CAs for secure web servers (used for shopping malls, etc.) usually attest only that the given public key belongs the given domain name. Company-wide CAs might attest that you are an employee of the company, that you have permissions to use a server, and ...

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