Category: Linux administration
Configuring the Samba server. Principles and modes of operation. Shares, permissions and user accounts. Printing. Workstation configuration. Management and diagnostic tools.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- SMB overview. theory, protocols, ports
- Samba capabilities
- Profiles (no profiles, roaming profiles, mandatory profiles)
- Hardware considerations, planning, distribution choice, filesystem choice (ACLs)
- One server scenario
- Configuration: smb.conf
- user accounts, machine accounts
- domain administrator, workstation administrator, printing administrator
- advanced user
- file/directory permissions, ACLs, file locking (oplocks)
- Domain vs. workgroup
- Plugins, recycle bin on Samba
- Printing. CUPS printing server
- basic configuration, managing printers
- command line tools, text configuration files, browser-based configuration
- automated driver installation on Samba
- Workstation initialization scripts (logon.bat)
- Clock synchronization
- Workstation configuration (default profile stored on the workstation)
- What Samba can’t do
- Management tools, diagnostics: smbstatus, tdbbackup, pdbedit
Audience and prerequisites
Participants must have good knowledge of general system administration and at least basic network configuration skills.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
