This book is the comprehensive guide to Samba administration, officially adopted by the Samba Team. Wondering how to integrate Samba's authentication with that of a Windows domain? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting! The range of this book knows few bounds. Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration -- on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems -- to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether users see the folder they expect or a cryptic error message.
 The current edition covers such advanced 3.x features as: <ul>
 <li>Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP</li>
<li>Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba</li>
<li>Delegating administrative tasks to non-root users</li>
<li>Central printer management</li>
<li>Advanced file serving features, such as making use of Virtual File System (VFS) plugins.</li>
 
</ul>
 Samba is a cross-platform triumph: robust, flexible and fast, it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. This book will help you make your file and print sharing as powerful and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself.
 Whether you're playing on your personal computer or an enterprise network, on one note or a full three-octave range, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

Using Samba: A File & Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X

Computers & Technology

Carter, Gerald

Eckstein, Robert

Ts, Jay

Networking & Cloud Computing

O'Reilly Media

Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours is a tutorial designed to help you integrate Linux/UNIX-based systems with Windows-based systems. It has all the information and tools necessary for you to be up and running with Samba in 24 short lessons. Learn how to use Samba to its fullest potential. Topics range from introducing Samba and Samba installation to configuration and problem solving. This book provides complete, step-by step instruction. A tear card featuring Samba's options and share examples is included.

SHARPE, Richard

Operating Systems

Sams.

Author and Samba Team Member Gerald Carter dedicates most of this book to the processes of installing and configuring Samba, distinguishing between both Linux/Windows, and Unix/Windows-based systems. He discusses the mechanics of file sharing across the dual platforms and expertly outlines the means necessary to remedy common problems, including helping to identify which version of Samba you are running and where to look for the patch or bug fix you will need to resolve it. He also assists in locating utilities like autoconf that automatically compiles a system configuration file with common default settings. Finally, he discusses security and password issues, as well as peripheral support for server printers.

Sams Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

Be more productive and make your life easier. That's what Ldap System Administration is all about. System administrators often spend a great deal of time managing configuration information located on many different machines: usernames, passwords, printer configurations, email client configurations, and network filesystem configurations, to name a few. Ldapv3 provides tools for centralizing all of the configuration information and placing it under your control. Rather than maintaining several administrative databases (Nis, Active Directory, Samba, and Nfs configuration files), you can make changes in only one place and have all your systems immediately "see" the updated information. Practically platform independent, this book uses the widely available, open source OpenLdap 2 directory server as a premise for examples, showing you how to use it to help you manage your configuration information effectively and securely. OpenLdap 2 ships with most Linux distributions and Mac Os X, and can be easily downloaded for most Unix-based systems. After introducing the workings of a directory service and the Ldap protocol, all aspects of building and installing OpenLdap, plus key ancillary packages like Sasl and OpenSsl, this book discusses: Configuration and access control Distributed directories; replication and referral Using OpenLdap to replace Nis Using OpenLdap to manage email configurations Using Ldap for abstraction with Ftp and Http servers, Samba, and Radius Interoperating with different Ldap servers, including Active Directory Programming using Net: Ldap If you want to be a master of your domain, Ldap System Administration will help you get up and running quickly regardless of which Ldap version you use. After reading this book, even with no previous Ldap experience, you'll be able to integrate a directory server into essential network services such as mail, Dns, Http, and Smb/Cifs.

LDAP System Administration: Putting Directories to Work

Computer Science

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