http://netvouz.com/falko/tag/samba?feed=rss falko's bookmarks tagged "samba" on Netvouz http://www.howtoforge.com/automatic_discovery_mounting_smb_networkshares For some time I have been looking for a good way to let my computer discover the Windows network and mount shares on demand. After trying the kioslaves in the desktop of my choice (KDE) and the FUSE programs Fusesmb and SmbNetFs, I was not really satisfied. There had to be a way to let my computer discover all the workgroups/domains, the hosts and the shares, and mount a share on a hosts on demand. falko Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:56:28 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode The intent of this article is to show you how to configure your Linux machine and Samba server to participate in a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain as a Member Server using Kerberos authentication. This involves using the security = ADS security mode in Samba. falko Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:05:23 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_samba_standalone_server_with_tdbsam_backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba file server on Debian Etch and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as adding users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has its own home directory that is accessible via SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read/write access. falko Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:12:12 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-13-samba-standalone-server-with-tdbsam-backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access. falko Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:06:03 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-a-standalone-file-server-with-nexenta-3.0-beta2 Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem. In the resulting setup every user can have his/her own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol or NFS with read-/write access. falko Thu, 06 May 2010 11:41:59 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/mandriva-directory-server-on-debian-etch This document describes how to set up the Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) on Debian Etch. The resulting system provides a full-featured office server for small and medium companies - easy to administer via the web-based Mandriva Management Console (MMC). falko Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:32:37 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/openldap-samba-domain-controller-ubuntu7.10 This document is a step by step guide for configuring Ubuntu 7.10 as a Samba Domain Controller with an LDAP backend (OpenLDAP). The point is to configure a server that can be comparable, from a central authentication point of view, to a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. The end result will be a server with an LDAP directory for storing user, group, and computer accounts. A Windows XP Professional SP2 workstation will be able to join the domain once properly configured. falko Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:56:55 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/running-a-file-and-print-server-with-ebox-on-ubuntu8.04-server This article shows how to run a file- and print-server for small and medium enterprises (SME) on one single Ubuntu 8.04 server. It is very easy to set up, and management is done with an easy-to-use web interface called eBox so once the system is set up, you can forget about the command line. eBox was developed to administrate advanced services for corporate networks. falko Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:26:23 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/running-a-small-business-server-with-clearos-6.3.0-community-edition This guide shows how you can install and run a Small Business Server with ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition). With ClearOS, you can run various services (such as a file- and print server, a web proxy and content filter, a mail server, etc.) in your local network and manage them through an easy web interface. ClearOS provides apps for each of these tasks from its marketplace - many of them are free, some of them have to be paid for. ClearOS Community is open-source and free. There's also a professional version available for which you have to pay, but which in return provides better support, better tested apps and updates, etc. falko Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:12:58 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-gutsy-samba-domaincontroller This is a detailed description about setting up an Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 7.10) to act as file- and printserver for Windows(tm) workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups for up to 250 users and is easier to set up than an LDAP backend. falko Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:06:06 GMT