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31 >SAMBA Project Documentation</H1
51 > : $Date: 2002/11/13 15:34:49 $</P
53 >This book is a collection of HOWTOs added to Samba documentation over the years.
54 I try to ensure that all are current, but sometimes the is a larger job
55 than one person can maintain. The most recent version of this document
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59 >http://www.samba.org/</A
61 on the "Documentation" page. Please send updates to <A
62 HREF="mailto:jerry@samba.org"
67 HREF="mailto:jelmer@samba.org"
72 >This documentation is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
73 version 2. A copy of the license is included with the Samba source
74 distribution. A copy can be found on-line at <A
75 HREF="http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt"
77 >http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt</A
90 HREF="introduction.html"
91 >General installation</A
98 >How to Install and Test SAMBA</A
104 HREF="install.html#AEN26"
105 >Read the man pages</A
109 HREF="install.html#AEN36"
110 >Building the Binaries</A
114 HREF="install.html#AEN64"
115 >The all important step</A
119 HREF="install.html#AEN68"
120 >Create the smb configuration file.</A
124 HREF="install.html#AEN82"
125 >Test your config file with
133 HREF="install.html#AEN90"
134 >Starting the smbd and nmbd</A
138 HREF="install.html#AEN145"
139 >Try listing the shares available on your
144 HREF="install.html#AEN154"
145 >Try connecting with the unix client</A
149 HREF="install.html#AEN170"
150 >Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT,
151 Win2k, OS/2, etc... client</A
155 HREF="install.html#AEN184"
156 >What If Things Don't Work?</A
162 HREF="improved-browsing.html"
163 >Improved browsing in samba</A
169 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN229"
170 >Overview of browsing</A
174 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN233"
175 >Browsing support in samba</A
179 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN242"
180 >Problem resolution</A
184 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN249"
185 >Browsing across subnets</A
189 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN289"
190 >Setting up a WINS server</A
194 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN308"
195 >Setting up Browsing in a WORKGROUP</A
199 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN326"
200 >Setting up Browsing in a DOMAIN</A
204 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN336"
205 >Forcing samba to be the master</A
209 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN345"
210 >Making samba the domain master</A
214 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN363"
215 >Note about broadcast addresses</A
219 HREF="improved-browsing.html#AEN366"
220 >Multiple interfaces</A
233 HREF="oplocks.html#AEN378"
234 >What are oplocks?</A
240 HREF="browsing-quick.html"
241 >Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide</A
247 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN393"
252 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN401"
253 >Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter</A
257 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN415"
258 >Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter</A
262 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN420"
267 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN431"
268 >Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines</A
272 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN437"
273 >Name Resolution Order</A
279 HREF="pwencrypt.html"
280 >LanMan and NT Password Encryption in Samba</A
286 HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN473"
291 HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN478"
292 >Important Notes About Security</A
296 HREF="pwencrypt.html#AEN513"
297 >The smbpasswd Command</A
306 >Type of installation</A
312 HREF="securitylevels.html"
313 >User and Share security level (for servers not in a domain)</A
317 HREF="samba-pdc.html"
318 >How to Configure Samba as a NT4 Primary Domain Controller</A
324 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN591"
325 >Prerequisite Reading</A
329 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN597"
334 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN636"
335 >Configuring the Samba Domain Controller</A
339 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN679"
340 >Creating Machine Trust Accounts and Joining Clients to the
345 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN763"
346 >Common Problems and Errors</A
350 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN811"
351 >System Policies and Profiles</A
355 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN855"
356 >What other help can I get?</A
360 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN969"
361 >Domain Control for Windows 9x/ME</A
365 HREF="samba-pdc.html#AEN1107"
366 >DOMAIN_CONTROL.txt : Windows NT Domain Control & Samba</A
372 HREF="samba-bdc.html"
373 >How to Act as a Backup Domain Controller in a Purely Samba Controlled Domain</A
379 HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1143"
380 >Prerequisite Reading</A
384 HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1147"
389 HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1155"
390 >What qualifies a Domain Controller on the network?</A
394 HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1164"
395 >Can Samba be a Backup Domain Controller?</A
399 HREF="samba-bdc.html#AEN1168"
400 >How do I set up a Samba BDC?</A
407 >Samba as a ADS domain member</A
413 HREF="ads.html#AEN1203"
414 >Installing the required packages for Debian</A
418 HREF="ads.html#AEN1209"
419 >Installing the required packages for RedHat</A
423 HREF="ads.html#AEN1218"
428 HREF="ads.html#AEN1230"
429 >Setup your /etc/krb5.conf</A
433 HREF="ads.html#AEN1240"
434 >Create the computer account</A
438 HREF="ads.html#AEN1256"
439 >Test your server setup</A
443 HREF="ads.html#AEN1261"
444 >Testing with smbclient</A
448 HREF="ads.html#AEN1264"
455 HREF="domain-security.html"
456 >Samba as a NT4 domain member</A
462 HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1286"
463 >Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2.2</A
467 HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1350"
468 >Samba and Windows 2000 Domains</A
472 HREF="domain-security.html#AEN1355"
473 >Why is this better than security = server?</A
482 >Optional configuration</A
488 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html"
489 >Integrating MS Windows networks with Samba</A
495 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1387"
500 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1409"
501 >Name Resolution in a pure Unix/Linux world</A
505 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1472"
506 >Name resolution as used within MS Windows networking</A
510 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1517"
511 >How browsing functions and how to deploy stable and
512 dependable browsing using Samba</A
516 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1527"
517 >MS Windows security options and how to configure
518 Samba for seemless integration</A
522 HREF="integrate-ms-networks.html#AEN1597"
529 HREF="unix-permissions.html"
530 >UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists</A
536 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1618"
537 >Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT
542 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1627"
543 >How to view file security on a Samba share</A
547 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1638"
548 >Viewing file ownership</A
552 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1658"
553 >Viewing file or directory permissions</A
557 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1694"
558 >Modifying file or directory permissions</A
562 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1716"
563 >Interaction with the standard Samba create mask
568 HREF="unix-permissions.html#AEN1780"
569 >Interaction with the standard Samba file attribute
577 >Configuring PAM for distributed but centrally
578 managed authentication</A
584 HREF="pam.html#AEN1801"
589 HREF="pam.html#AEN1845"
590 >Distributed Authentication</A
594 HREF="pam.html#AEN1852"
595 >PAM Configuration in smb.conf</A
602 >Hosting a Microsoft Distributed File System tree on Samba</A
608 HREF="msdfs.html#AEN1872"
622 HREF="printing.html#AEN1933"
627 HREF="printing.html#AEN1955"
632 HREF="printing.html#AEN2063"
633 >The Imprints Toolset</A
637 HREF="printing.html#AEN2106"
645 >Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A
651 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2238"
656 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2242"
661 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2255"
662 >What Winbind Provides</A
666 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2266"
667 >How Winbind Works</A
671 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2306"
672 >Installation and Configuration</A
676 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2555"
681 HREF="winbind.html#AEN2565"
688 HREF="pdb-mysql.html"
689 >Passdb MySQL plugin</A
695 HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2579"
700 HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2585"
705 HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2600"
706 >Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password</A
710 HREF="pdb-mysql.html#AEN2605"
711 >Getting non-column data from the table</A
718 >Passdb XML plugin</A
724 HREF="pdb-xml.html#AEN2624"
729 HREF="pdb-xml.html#AEN2630"
737 >Stackable VFS modules</A
743 HREF="vfs.html#AEN2651"
744 >Introduction and configuration</A
748 HREF="vfs.html#AEN2659"
753 HREF="vfs.html#AEN2713"
754 >VFS modules available elsewhere</A
760 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html"
761 >Storing Samba's User/Machine Account information in an LDAP Directory</A
767 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2747"
772 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2767"
777 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2796"
778 >Supported LDAP Servers</A
782 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2801"
783 >Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount</A
787 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2813"
788 >Configuring Samba with LDAP</A
792 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2860"
793 >Accounts and Groups management</A
797 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2865"
798 >Security and sambaAccount</A
802 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2885"
803 >LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts</A
807 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2955"
808 >Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount</A
812 HREF="samba-ldap-howto.html#AEN2963"
819 HREF="cvs-access.html"
820 >HOWTO Access Samba source code via CVS</A
826 HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2974"
831 HREF="cvs-access.html#AEN2979"
832 >CVS Access to samba.org</A
838 HREF="groupmapping.html"
839 >Group mapping HOWTO</A
844 >Samba performance issues</A
850 HREF="speed.html#AEN3065"
855 HREF="speed.html#AEN3071"
860 HREF="speed.html#AEN3091"
865 HREF="speed.html#AEN3098"
870 HREF="speed.html#AEN3103"
875 HREF="speed.html#AEN3108"
880 HREF="speed.html#AEN3112"
885 HREF="speed.html#AEN3117"
890 HREF="speed.html#AEN3120"
895 HREF="speed.html#AEN3123"
900 HREF="speed.html#AEN3128"
905 HREF="speed.html#AEN3132"
910 HREF="speed.html#AEN3139"
915 HREF="speed.html#AEN3144"
920 HREF="speed.html#AEN3148"
925 HREF="speed.html#AEN3151"
930 HREF="speed.html#AEN3183"
939 HREF="appendixes.html"
946 HREF="portability.html"
953 HREF="portability.html#AEN3198"
958 HREF="portability.html#AEN3204"
963 HREF="portability.html#AEN3208"
968 HREF="portability.html#AEN3237"
969 >RedHat Linux Rembrandt-II</A
975 HREF="other-clients.html"
976 >Samba and other CIFS clients</A
982 HREF="other-clients.html#AEN3258"
983 >Macintosh clients?</A
987 HREF="other-clients.html#AEN3267"
992 HREF="other-clients.html#AEN3307"
993 >Windows for Workgroups</A
997 HREF="other-clients.html#AEN3328"
1002 HREF="other-clients.html#AEN3344"
1003 >Windows 2000 Service Pack 2</A
1009 HREF="bugreport.html"
1016 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3368"
1021 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3378"
1026 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3384"
1031 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3401"
1036 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3411"
1037 >Attaching to a running process</A
1041 HREF="bugreport.html#AEN3414"
1048 HREF="diagnosis.html"
1049 >Diagnosing your samba server</A
1055 HREF="diagnosis.html#AEN3437"
1060 HREF="diagnosis.html#AEN3442"
1065 HREF="diagnosis.html#AEN3452"
1070 HREF="diagnosis.html#AEN3562"
1071 >Still having troubles?</A
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