Category: Linux administration
Further exploration of the capabilities and features of Samba.
Domain controller mode. Database backends for user account and permissions data. LDAP, integrating with Samba. Scripts for user management. Server replication. Interoperation with Windows 2008 servers. Migrating from Windows. Samba for Unix/Linux clients.
Duration
2 days
Agenda
- Domain controller mode (PDC). Ways of storing user accounts and profile data
- Storing user accounts and permissions in different formats
- standard (tdb), XML, smbpasswd, LDAP directory
- tools for working with Samba’s databases, migration between different databases
- LDAP
- Introduction to directory services
- installation, management, tools
- migrating accounts to LDAP
- Integrating LDAP with Samba
- PAM, NSS
- advantages of using a directory service
- analysis and deployment planning
- configuring, tuning and securing the server
- scripts for user management, automated and manual
- replication case study (using OpenLDAP)
- Interoperation with an existing Windows 2008 server – Samba as a domain client
- working with Active Directory
- authorization from an Active Directory server
- kerberos – principles, installation, configuring for Samba
- Winbind – description and configuration
- Windows to Samba migration strategy
- Samba for Linux clients
- NFS comparison
- CIFS protocol
- Overview and analysis of present and future solutions for interoperation of Linux and Microsoft products and technologies
Audience and prerequisites
Participants must have good knowledge of Linux system administration, basic knowledge of the Samba server (scope of our “SMB 101” course) and at least basic network configuration skills.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPIC-2 exam prep course
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Linux backups
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- VPNs in theory and practice
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- LDAP directory services on Linux. Integrating authorization systems
- Samba server on Linux
- Linux virtualization
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration