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Caselet
amba Team member John Terpstra has a Samba3 article on InformIT. The case study
offers an “example of simple Samba network server architecture.” Small to mid-sized
Soffices looking to migrate to Samba might be interested in this piece:
The office of Abmas Accounting Inc. is a 40-year-old family-run business. There are
nine permanent computer users. The network clients were upgraded two years ago. All
computers run Windows 2000 Professional. This year the server will be upgraded from
an old Windows NT4 server (actually running Windows NT4 Workstation, which worked
fine as there were fewer than 10 users) that has run in workgroup (Stand-Alone) mode, to
a new Linux server running Samba.
The office does not want a Domain Server. Mr. Alan Meany wants to keep the Windows
2000 Professional clients running as workgroup machines so that any staff member can
take a machine home and keep working. It has worked well so far and your task is to
replace the old server.

14.8 summary

Samba is a suite of utilities that allows your Linux box to share files and other resources, such as
printers, with Windows boxes. This chapter describes how you can make your Linux box into
a Windows Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or a server for a Windows Workgroup. Samba
essentially consists of two or three daemons. A daemon is a UNIX application that runs in the
background and provides services. The smb.conf file uses the same syntax as the various old
.ini files in Windows 3.1: Each file consists of various sections, which are started by putting the
section name between brackets ([]) on a new line. Each contains zero or more key/value pairs
separated by an equality sign (=).Before the Samba server can be accessed across the network,
access must be granted to users and any shared resources which are going to be provided by
the server. The main purpose of setting up a Samba server is to provide networked resources to
your Microsoft workstations and clients, so lets set up some resources for them to connect to and
use.Shared resources are specified as sections within the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, the sections
are identified by using squared brackets around each of the section names, similar to the global
section.

14.9 keywords

Configuration Parameters: Configuration parameters are documented in the smb.conf man
page.
PDC: Primary Domain Controller
Security Directive: The security directive determines whether the server will function as a
Windows Domain Controller or as a simple standalone server

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