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24.1 Samba

24.1.1 Introduction to Samba

With the program Samba, convert a UNIX machine into a ﬁle and print

server for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 machines. The Samba Project is run by

the Samba Team and was originally developed by the Australian Andrew

Tridgell.

Samba has now become a fully-ﬂedged and rather complex product.

This section presents an overview of its basic functionality. Samba of-

fers plenty of online documentation. Enter apropos samba at the com-

mand line to display some manual pages or just browse the /usr/share/

doc/packages/samba directory if Samba is installed for more on-

line documentation and examples. A commented example conﬁguration

(smb.conf.SuSE) can be found in the examples subdirectory.

Beginning from version 9.1, the SUSE LINUX samba package provides ver-

sion 3 of the Samba suite, which brings some important added features:

Support for Active Directory

Improved Unicode support

The internal authentication mechanisms have been completely re-

vised

Improved support for the Windows 200x and XP printing system

Servers can be set up as member servers in Active Directory domains

Adoption of an NT4 domain, enabling the migration from the latter to

a Samba domain

Note

Migration to Samba3

There are some special points to take into account when migrat-

ing from Samba 2.x to Samba 3. A discussion of this topic

is included in the Samba HOWTO Collection, where an en-

tire chapter is dedicated to it. After installing the samba-doc

package, ﬁnd the HOWTO in /usr/share/doc/packages/

samba/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf.

Note

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