Category: Linux administration
Configuring the Samba server. Principles and modes of operation. Shares, permissions and user accounts. Printing. Workstation configuration. Management and diagnostic tools.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- SMB overview. theory, protocols, ports
- Samba capabilities
- Profiles (no profiles, roaming profiles, mandatory profiles)
- Hardware considerations, planning, distribution choice, filesystem choice (ACLs)
- One server scenario
- Configuration: smb.conf
- user accounts, machine accounts
- domain administrator, workstation administrator, printing administrator
- advanced user
- file/directory permissions, ACLs, file locking (oplocks)
- Domain vs. workgroup
- Plugins, recycle bin on Samba
- Printing. CUPS printing server
- basic configuration, managing printers
- command line tools, text configuration files, browser-based configuration
- automated driver installation on Samba
- Workstation initialization scripts (logon.bat)
- Clock synchronization
- Workstation configuration (default profile stored on the workstation)
- What Samba can’t do
- Management tools, diagnostics: smbstatus, tdbbackup, pdbedit
Audience and prerequisites
Participants must have good knowledge of general system administration 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
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- 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
