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Using Samba as a primary domain controller

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Level: Introductory

Tom Syroid (dwcomments@syroidmanor.com), Contract writer

03 Apr 2002

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Open source Samba turns a UNIX® or Linux® system into a file and print server for Microsoft® Windows® network clients. Tom Syroid dishes up a juicy tutorial that shows you how to configure Samba as the primary domain controller on an xSeries® server.

In this tutorial

  • Introduction to Samba

  • Building and configuring a Samba PDC

  • Directories, accounts, and authentication

  • Client configuration

  • Troubleshooting and SWAT information

Prerequisites

You should have a basic knowledge of common administrative tasks, including tasks such as copying and moving files, creating user accounts, and setting permissions.


System requirements

The hardware used to write and test this tutorial consisted of one of the IBM new xSeries servers: An xSeries model 220, dual Pentium 3 1.2GHz CPUs, an IBM ServeRAID hardware RAID controller, 1GB of SDRAM, and three 10,000 RPM 18GB hard drives in RAID5 configuration (netting approximately 36GB of useable hard disk space).



Duration

Under one hour


Formats

html, pdf


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