This directory provides build tools for building a Samba based domain appliance. A appliance is a box that gets its username and group database from a domain controller, and does its authentication via a domain controller. Right now this is only supported by combining two CVS branches of Samba, which is what the files in this directory do. SETUP ----- To setup an appliance do the following: 1) build and install Samba using the .spec file or Makefile in this directory. 2) setup winbindd by following the directions in the winbindd man page. 3) test winbindd, validating that domain users and groups are visible and that domain authentication works, both using unix tools and smbclient. for appliance printing support also do this: 4) create a print$ share with write permission for print administrators. 4) create the "nt printer driver" directory (by default /usr/local/samba/lib/ntprinters) and make it writable by print adminisrators. 5) populate your /etc/printcap printer database 6) add printers using the NT "add printer wizard" in the Printers network folder. PACKAGING --------- - Checkout the Samba CVS head branch into a directory call samba-appliance-0.2/head - Checkout the source subdirectory of the Samba CVS SAMBA_TNG branch into a directory call samba-appliance-0.2/tng - Copy Makefile and smb.conf-appliance to samba-appliance-0.2/ - run build.sh That should build source and binary RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/{RPMS,SRPMS}