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I. General installation

Introduction

This part contains general info on how to install samba and how to configure the parts of samba you will most likely need. PLEASE read this.

Table of Contents
1. How to Install and Test SAMBA
1.1. Obtaining and installing samba
1.2. Configuring samba
1.2.1. Editing the smb.conf file
1.2.2. SWAT
1.3. Try listing the shares available on your server
1.4. Try connecting with the unix client
1.5. Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, OS/2, etc... client
1.6. What If Things Don't Work?
1.6.1. Scope IDs
1.6.2. Locking
2. Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide
2.1. Discussion
2.2. How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and dependable browsing using Samba
2.3. Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter
2.4. Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter
2.5. Use of WINS
2.6. Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines
2.7. Name Resolution Order
3. User information database
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Important Notes About Security
3.2.1. Advantages of SMB Encryption
3.2.2. Advantages of non-encrypted passwords
3.3. The smbpasswd Command
3.4. Plain text
3.5. TDB
3.6. LDAP
3.6.1. Introduction
3.6.2. Introduction
3.6.3. Supported LDAP Servers
3.6.4. Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount
3.6.5. Configuring Samba with LDAP
3.6.6. Accounts and Groups management
3.6.7. Security and sambaAccount
3.6.8. LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts
3.6.9. Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount
3.7. MySQL
3.7.1. Building
3.7.2. Creating the database
3.7.3. Configuring
3.7.4. Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password
3.7.5. Getting non-column data from the table
3.8. Passdb XML plugin
3.8.1. Building
3.8.2. Usage
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