Samba

Documentation

• Homepage
• Samba HOWTO collection
• my old samba links
• O'Reilly book
• Gentoo Samba Howto
• fully automating the installation of Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
• User Rights and Privileges

Samba and LDAP

• Samba&LDAP doc
• smbldap-tools, this is a big help, and documented
• Samba-LDAP on Debian
• samba and ldap
• Samba & LDAP ...on Debian made simple!
• Part I: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users
• http://swik.net/Samba+LDAP (vague collection of links)
• change password on samba/ldap
• LJ quick howto for samba/ldap
• LDAP Authentication
• Samba3 and LDAP
• Another pam/ldap page, just some broken pics there
• Samba (v.3) PDC LDAP howto

Samba as PDC

• Samba PDC mini-HOWTO
• Troubleshooting Roaming Profiles on Microsoft Windows NT/2000
• Samba as PDF on Gentoo
• profile management
• Samba and windows profiles
• UNIX and Windows User Management
• Managing Samba: Remote GUI tools

net rpc group addmem someuser "Domain Users"

nt 4.0 reskit to manage domain users!!

cpau.exe to run stuff as other user

Windows complaining about wrong rights on profile

• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Implement_Samba_as_your_PDC#Configure_Windows_XP_clients
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327259

Terms

• RID
• SID

Commands

• net
• testparm
• pdbedit
• smbmount or just mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //server/share /mnt/point
• smbclient
• smbstatus
• nmblookup -M domainname
• nltest (on windows)

FAQ

Cannot update roaming profile

Usually because a file is in use, check out

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ExcludeProfileDirs

Can't join domain

close all shares log in to windows, no anonymous 'login'

smbmount

mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser,uid=uidofmountpoint,gid=gidofmountpoint,fmask=775 //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename/

Windows cannot connect to the domain, etc..

Switch to workgroup, reboot, join domain again, reboot.