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
• Oplocks
• Samba error messages
• Samba Domain Model

Samba and LDAP

• Samba&LDAP doc
• smbldap-tools
• Samba-LDAP on Debian
• Debian Samba 3 / LDAP / PHP LDAP Admin HOWTO
• samba and ldap
• 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
• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LDAP_SAMBA_PDC_Basic_Setup

Samba as PDC

• 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
• HOWTO LDAP SAMBA PDC Performance Tuning

net rpc group addmem  "Domain Users" someuser

nt 4.0 reskit to manage domain users!!

cpau.exe to run stuff as other user

remember to add option netbios-name-servers to dhcpd.conf

Terms

• RID
• SID

Commands and tools

• net
• testparm
• pdbedit
• smbmount or just mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //server/share /mnt/point
• smbclient
• smbstatus
• smbtree
• nmblookup -M domainname
• nltest (on windows)
• gpresult
• gpedit
• LDAP Account Manager
• mkntpwd.tar.gz
• Samba Account Management Tools

• gsambad too manage samba users

FAQ

Cannot update roaming profile

Usually because a file is in use, check out

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

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
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833

No security tab in Explorer

• http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/07/19/missing-or-no-security-tab-found-in-windows-xp-professional/

Can't join domain

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

smbmount

mount -t smbfs -o username=someuser //servername/sharename /mnt/sharename/

If you get very vague warnings on debian this means you didn't install one of many smb* packages, probably smbfs

Windows cannot connect to the domain, etc..

Switch to workgroup, set system name first, reboot, join domain again, reboot.