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Table of Contents
Preface
...ix
1. Learning the Samba
...1
What is Samba? ... 2
What Can Samba Do For Me? ... 3
Getting Familiar with a SMB/CIFS Network ... 9
Microsoft Implementations ... 18
An Overview of the Samba Distribution ... 27
How Can I Get Samba? ... 28
What’s New in Samba 2.0? ... 28
And That’s Not All... ... 30
2. Installing Samba on a Unix System
...31
Downloading the Samba Distribution ... 32
Configuring Samba ... 34
Compiling and Installing Samba ... 38
A Basic Samba Configuration File ... 41
Starting the Samba Daemons ... 46
Testing the Samba Daemons ... 49
3. Configuring Windows Clients
...50
Setting Up Windows 95/98 Computers ... 50
Setting Up Windows NT 4.0 Computers ... 63
An Introduction to SMB/CIFS ... 74
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4. Disk Shares
...82
Learning the Samba Configuration File ... 82
Special Sections ... 88
Configuration File Options ... 91
Server Configuration ... 93
Disk Share Configuration ... 96
Networking Options with Samba ... 101
Virtual Servers ... 106
Logging Configuration Options ... 108
5. Browsing and Advanced Disk Shares
...114
Browsing ... 114
Filesystem Differences ... 127
File Permissions and Attributes on MS-DOS and Unix ... 135
Name Mangling and Case ... 143
Locks and Oplocks ... 149
6. Users, Security, and Domains
...155
Users and Groups ... 155
Controlling Access to Shares ... 158
Authentication Security ... 164
Passwords ... 171
Windows Domains ... 184
Logon Scripts ... 192
7. Printing and Name Resolution
...201
Sending Print Jobs to Samba ... 201
Printing to Windows Client Printers ... 213
Name Resolution with Samba ... 224
8. Additional Samba Information
...230
Supporting Programmers ... 230
Magic Scripts ... 233
Internationalization ... 234
WinPopup Messages ... 237
Recently Added Options ... 238
Miscellaneous Options ... 240
Backups with smbtar ... 245
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9. Troubleshooting Samba
...250
The Tool Bag ... 250
The Fault Tree ... 257
Extra Resources ... 291
A. Configuring Samba with SSL
...295
B. Samba Performance Tuning
...312
C. Samba Configuration Option Quick Reference
...329
D. Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands
...359
E. Downloading Samba with CVS
...378
F. Sample Configuration File
...379
Index
...385
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