Detailed Objective

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Description:
Candidates should be able to set up a Samba server for various clients. This objective includes setting up Samba for login clients and setting up the workgroup in which a server participates and defining shared directories and printers. Also covered is a configuring a Linux client to use a Samba server.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Samba 2 and 3 documentation
  • Samba configuration files
  • Samba tools and utilities
  • Mounting Samba shares on Linux
  • Samba daemons
  • WINS server functionality
  • Mapping Windows usernames to Linux usernames

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • smbd, nmbd
  • smbstatus, testparm, smbpasswd, nmblookup
  • smb.conf, lmhosts