User Documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Samba Release Planning
• Samba Release Notes
• Obtaining Samba
• Installing Samba

• Operating System Requirements

• Samba Dependencies Required to Build Samba
• File System Support

• Build Samba from Source
• Distribution-specific Package Installation

• Updating Samba

• Domain control

• Active Directory Domain Controller

• Active Directory Naming FAQ
• Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller
• Joining a Samba DC to an Existing Active Directory
• Joining a Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 DC to a Samba AD
• Joining a Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 DC to a Samba AD
• Migrating a Samba NT4 Domain to Samba AD (Classic Upgrade)
• Demote a Samba AD DC
• The Samba AD DNS Back Ends

• Samba Internal DNS Back End
• BIND9_DLZ DNS Back End

• Setting up a BIND DNS Server
• Configure DHCP to update DNS records with BIND9

• Testing Dynamic DNS Updates

• Time Synchronisation
• Samba AD DC Port Usage
• Samba AD DC Troubleshooting

• NT4 Domains

• Samba NT4 Primary Domain Controller (PDC) Quickstart

• Samba NT4 PDC Port Usage

• NT4 Backup Domain Controller (BDC)
• Required Settings for Samba NT4 Domains

• Domain membership

• Joining a Windows Client or Server to a Domain

• Windows DNS Configuration

• Joining a Linux or Unix Host to a Domain

• Linux and Unix DNS Configuration
• Setup Samba as an AD Domain Member

• Identity Mapping (idmap)

• idmap config ad (RFC2307)
• idmap config rid
• idmap_config_autorid
• Local accounts

• PAM Offline Authentication

• Setup Samba as an NT4 Domain Member
• Samba Domain Member Port Usage

• Joining a FreeBSD Host to a Domain
• Joining a Mac OS X Client to a Domain

• Mac OS X DNS Configuration

• Configuring FreeDOS to Access a Samba Share
• Troubleshooting Samba Domain Members

• Standalone server

• CTDB and Clustered Samba

• Advanced configuration

• DNS management

• Changing the DNS Back End of a Samba AD DC
• DNS administration
• DNS troubleshooting

• Dns_tkey_negotiategss: TKEY is unacceptable

• Setting up RFC2307 in AD
• Print server support

• Setup a Samba print server

• CUPS backend
• LPD backend
• The [printers] share
• Share a printer

• Configuring Point'n'Print automatic printer driver deployment

• The [print$] share
• Uploading drivers
• Associating a printer with its driver
• Preconfiguring a printer
• Defining printer driver sources trusts

• Defining new paper sizes (formes)
• Configure network printer ports

• Active Directory Sites

• Introduction into AD sites

• Setting up a new AD site
• Assigning a DC to a site
• Setting up AD subnets
• Additional tasks regarding AD sites

• Samba AD Schema

• AD Schema Version Support
• Samba AD schema extensions

• Samba VFS (Virtual File System) modules

• Replication

• Distributed File System (DFS)

• SysVol replication (DFS-R)

• Rsync based SysVol replication workaround (Samba DCs only)
• Bidirectional Rsync/Unison based SysVol replication workaround (Samba DCs only)
• Bidirectional Rsync/osync based SysVol replication workaround (Samba DCs only)
• Robocopy based SysVol replication workaround (Samba DCs -> Windows DCs)

• Directory Replication Service (DRS)

• Common administration tasks

• The Windows remote server administration tools (RSAT)

• Installing RSAT

• Remote and local management of Samba

• User and group management

• Maintaining Unix Attributes in AD using ADUC
• Administer Unix Attributes in AD using samba-tool and ldbedit

• Backup and restore

• Backup and restore an Samba AD DC
• Backup and restore a Samba domain member server

• File sharing

• Shares with Windows ACLs
• Shares with POSIX ACLs
• Special file shares

• User home drives
• Implementing roaming profiles
• Anonymous share

• Windows profiles

• Implementing local profiles
• Implementing roaming profiles
• Windows folder redirection

• Flexible Single-Master Operations (FSMO) Roles

• Multi-master vs. single master model
• The seven FSMO roles
• Transferring and Seizing FSMO Roles

• The AD functional levels

• Raising the Functional Levels

• Change the IP address of an Samba AD DC
• Configuring LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) on a Samba AD DC
• Delegating administrative permissions to non-administrators

• Joining Machines to a Domain
• Account management

• Administer workstations

• Managing local groups on domain members via GPO restricted groups

• Working with Active Directory encoded LDAP values
• Performance tuning
• Configure Samba to Bind to Specific Interfaces
• Improving performance with server-side copy
• Samba AD smart card login
• VPN single sign-on with Samba AD
• Authenticating other services against Samba AD

• Authenticating Apache against Active Directory
• openSSH single sign-on
• Authenticating Dovecot against Active Directory

• openLDAP as proxy to AD
• Client specific logging

• Terms & Abbreviations

• Getting help

• Samba mailing list
• Commercial support

• Contribute

• Bug reporting
• How To Write Samba Documentation