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

by Gerald Carter, Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein

Overview

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:

• Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP
• Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba
• Delegating administrative tasks to non-root users
• Central printer management
• Advanced file serving features, such as making use of Virtual File System (VFS) plugins.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596007690
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	447
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

Gerald (Jerry) Carter received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Auburn University, where he continues to pursue his PhD. He has been a member of the Samba development Team since 1998 and his involvement with Unix systems and network administration of UNIX began in 1995. Jerry currently works for HP, working on embedded printing appliances. Having published articles with various web-based magazines, he teaches instructional courses as a consultant for several companies and conferences.

Jay Ts is a system administrator and programmer with many years of experience working with several versions of Unix and other operating systems. Nowadays he works as an independent consultant out of his home in Sedona, Arizona.

Robert Eckstein has worked with Java since its first release. In a previous life, he has been an editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc. and a programmer for Motorola's cellular technology division. He has authored, co-authored, or edited a number of books, including Java Swing, Java
Enterprise Best Practices, Using Samba, XML Pocket Reference, and
Webmaster in a Nutshell. In his spare time he has been known to tinker with filmmaking and digital photography, as well as collecting vintage video game consoles. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife
Michelle, his children Lauren and Nathan, and their talking dog
Ginger.

Table of Contents

Preface; Audience for This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Samba; 1.1 What Is Samba?; 1.2 What Can Samba Do for Me?; 1.3 The Common Internet File System; 1.4 Connecting to a CIFS File Share; 1.5 Browsing; 1.6 Authentication: Peer-to-Peer Versus Domains; 1.7 What's in Samba 3.0?; 1.8 Future Research in Samba 4.0; 1.9 What Can Samba Do?; 1.10 An Overview of the Samba Distribution; 1.11 How Can I Get Samba?; Chapter 2: Installing Samba on a Unix System; 2.1 Binary Packages; 2.2 Compiling from Source; 2.3 Compiling and Installing Samba; 2.4 Enabling the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT); 2.5 A Basic Samba Configuration File; 2.6 Firewall Configuration; 2.7 Starting the Samba Daemons; Chapter 3: Configuring Windows Clients; 3.1 Windows Networking Concepts; 3.2 Windows Setup; Chapter 4: The Samba Configuration File; 4.1 Basic Syntax and Rules; 4.2 Special Sections; 4.3 Configuration File Options; 4.4 Basic Server Configuration; 4.5 Disk Share Configuration; 4.6 Networking Options with Samba; 4.7 Virtual Servers; 4.8 Logging Configuration Options; Chapter 5: Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization; 5.1 Security Modes; 5.2 User Management; 5.3 Group Mapping; 5.4 User Privilege Management; 5.5 Controlling Authorization for File Shares; Chapter 6: Advanced Disk Shares; 6.1 Special Share Names; 6.2 Filesystem Differences; 6.3 Access Control Lists; 6.4 Microsoft Distributed File Systems; 6.5 Virtual File Systems; 6.6 Executing Server Scripts; Chapter 7: Printing; 7.1 Print Shares; 7.2 A Usable Print Share; 7.3 Samba and CUPS; 7.4 The [printers] Service; 7.5 Enabling SMB Printer Sharing in OS X; 7.6 Creating a PDF Printer; 7.7 Managing Windows Print Drivers; 7.8 Printers and Security; 7.9 Disabling Point and Print; 7.10 Printing, Queue Lists, and tdb Files; 7.11 Printing to Windows Printers; 7.12 Printing Parameters; Chapter 8: Name Resolution and Network Browsing; 8.1 Name Resolution; 8.2 Network Browsing; Chapter 9: Domain Controllers; 9.1 Samba Domains: NT 4.0 or Active Directory?; 9.2 Configuring a Samba PDC; 9.3 Configuring a Samba BDC; 9.4 passdb Recommendations; 9.5 Migrating an NT 4.0 Domain to Samba; 9.6 Domain Trusts; 9.7 Remote Server Management; Chapter 10: Domain Member Servers; 10.1 Joining a Domain; 10.2 Domain and ADS Security Modes; 10.3 Matching Domain Users to Local Accounts; 10.4 Winbind; 10.5 Additional Winbind Features; Chapter 11: Unix Clients; 11.1 The Linux CIFS Filesystem; 11.2 FreeBSD's smbfs; 11.3 Mac OS X; 11.4 smbclient; 11.5 Remote Administration with net; Chapter 12: Troubleshooting Samba; 12.1 The Tool Box; 12.2 Samba Logs; 12.3 Unix Utilities; 12.4 The Fault Tree; 12.5 Troubleshooting Browsing; 12.6 Troubleshooting Name Services; 12.7 Troubleshooting Network Addresses; 12.8 Troubleshooting NetBIOS Names; 12.9 Extra Resources; Appendix A: Summary of Samba Daemons and Commands; A.1 SMB URI Syntax; A.2 Samba Daemons; A.3 Samba Client Programs; Appendix B: Downloading Samba with Subversion; Appendix C: Configure Options; C.1 Install Directory and Library Options; C.2 Developer Options; C.3 Authentication Options; C.4 File Serving Features; C.5 Printing Options; C.6 Clients and Libraries; Colophon;