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W3   Configuring Samba: Avoiding Pitfalls   am program
John Blair, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Who should attend: System administrators of heterogeneous environments consisting of Windows and UNIX hosts.

Go home with a thorough understanding of Samba and its components, as well as a toolbox of solutions to frequently encountered problems. Put to use the popular and freely-distributed Samba software suite for providing Windows (SMB) networking services from hosts running UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems to PCs running Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2. Samba allows Windows machines to "see" UNIX hosts on their networks, including the Internet. In many situations, Samba running on a free operating system like Linux or FreeBSD is an inexpensive alternative to running Windows NT Server. In other environments, Samba is an invaluable tool for providing convenient access to existing UNIX servers from PCs.

Because the problems it tackles are complex, configuring Samba is often difficult. You will learn how to avoid simple to complex configuration problems.

Examples of topics to be covered are:

-    General system architecture
 
-    Dealing with problems caused by the differences between the UNIX and Windows file systems
 
-    Using Samba to process logins from Windows NT and Windows 95 machines
 
-    Smoothly integrating a Samba server into a large Windows network containing multiple NT domains and spanning more than one TCP/IP subnet

People who attend this tutorial will leave with a thorough understanding of Samba and its components, as well as a toolbox of solutions to frequently encountered problems.

 


John Blair   is the author of Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows (a tutorial and reference guide) and a frequent contributor to Linux Journal. As a member of the Samba Team, he has contributed documentation improvements and minor bits of code.
 


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