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Technical Articles

Samba/iX 2.0.7

By Wendy Cheng

Computer Systems Division

New Features and Improvements

As part of Hewlett Packard CSYs commitment to HP 3000 platform and interoperability

with NT, Samba/iX 2.0.7 comes with a host of long-awaited improvements and new

features to take NT connectivity to a new level.

NOTE

Samba/iX 2.0.7 has been tested with Windows 2000.

NOTE

If you choose to run Samba/iX 2.0.7 server, you should read the installation

instructions in the READLXF6 ﬁle under the SMB207 group and SAMBA

account on your system after you install the ofﬁcial release patch/6.5 of

Samba/iX 2.0.7.

Samba Web Administration Tool - SWAT

SWAT is a web-based tool which can be used remotely to conﬁgure the Samba

conﬁguration ﬁle (smb.conf). Various parameters, share security, and other features can be

modiﬁed from a browser interface, in effect giving added ﬂexibility. SWAT is very

user-friendly with help and related documentation available on-line.

The name of the binary is SWAT and its location is/SAMBA/SMB207/bin/swat. Before

SWAT can be run, entries in the following ﬁles need to be updated ﬁrst:

INETDCNF.NET.SYS andSERVICES.NET.SYS. As soon as this is done, running SWAT is

as simple as pointing your favorite browser to:

http://sambaserver:901 [Here 901 is the port at which SWAT operates.]

Improvements Incorporated in the New Samba/iX

Samba/iX 2.0.7 comes with a host of improvements and enhancements over the previous

releases version 1.9.16p9. It includes bug-ﬁxes and patches from the previous versions.

User-Selectable Name Resolution Order

The resolution of NetBIOS names into IP addresses can be done in several different ways

(broadcast, lmhosts, DNS lookup, WINS). In the Samba version 2.0.7, a new parameter,

name resolution order, allows administrators to select the methods of name resolution, and

the order in which such methods are applied.

Improved Share Mode Handling

The handling of share modes has been greatly improved in this new version of Samba

2.0.7. The conﬁdence level on share mode handling in Samba is now much higher than it