Linux Transfer for Windows Network Admins: A Roadmap for Building a Linux File Server

331 Pages·2003·8.06 MB·English

by  Brian Bilbrey

Linux Transfer for Windows
Network Admins:
A Roadmap for Building a Linux
File and Print Server
Michael Jang
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Linux Transfer for Windows Network Admins: A Roadmap for Building a Linux File and Print
Server
By Michael Jang
Technical Editor: Elizabeth Zinkann
Copy Editor: Jeana Frazier
Cover Art: “Network” by Todd Gnacinski, Milwaukee, WI
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List of Chapters
Introduction xix
Chapter 1: Basic Linux Installation 1
Chapter 2: Installing Linux as a File Server 29
Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Server File System 59
Chapter 4: Setting Up Your File Server’s Users 105
Chapter 5: Connecting Linux Workstations 135
Chapter 6: Connecting Windows Workstations 153
Chapter 7: Configuring Printers 199
Chapter 8: Administration and Management 229
Chapter 9: System Backup 265
Appendix A: Samba 3.0 Preview 287
Appendix B: Sample Samba Configuration Files 291
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Table of Contents
Our Contract with You, The Reader iii
Acknowledgements xiii
About the Authors xv
How to Download the Files xvii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1: Basic Linux Installation 1
Basic file server functions 1
Selecting a distribution 1
Red Hat Linux 3
United Linux 3
Other Linux distributions 4
A brief guide to installing Linux 4
1. Checking hardware 5
2. Planning partitions 8
3. Understanding the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 9
4. Selecting a filesystem format 11
5. Preparing partitions and hard drives for dual booting 15
6. Basic steps to installing Red Hat Linux 24
Conclusion 27
Chapter 2: Installing Linux as a File Server 29
Basic terms 29
The installation nitty-gritty 30
Remaining steps 30
Configuring a firewall 31
Configuring communication through the firewall 32
Authentication 33
Samba authentication 34
Installing what’s necessary 35
Basic components 35
Basic components plus 35
Options 35
Other network services 39
After installation 40
First Boot 40
The Red Hat Linux GUI 43
The Red Hat Network 44
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Rawhide 48
Other updates 48
Package management 48
Installing and upgrading RPMs 48
Using the rpm command 50
rpm command details 51
Uninstalling what is not necessary 52
Checking installed services 53
Getting more information 55
Uninstalling a service 56
Deactivating a service 56
Conclusion 58
Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Server File System 59
The Microsoft CIFS 60
Background 60
Basic look and feel 61
The NFS alternative—an overview 63
Basic administration 63
Process management 64
User categories 65
Configuring a Samba server 66
Getting Samba 66
Samba configuration files 67
Samba and firewalls 68
The Red Hat Samba Configurator 70
Samba Web Administration Tool 75
Configuring Samba in detail 84
Opening smb.conf in a GUI 85
Global settings 86
Defining shared directories and printers 94
Conclusion 102
Chapter 4: Setting Up Your File Server’s Users 105
Users and accounts 106
Linux user and group accounts 106
Configuring Samba users 111
Users on a Domain 114
Using the Microsoft user database 114
Setting up a Samba PDC database 118
File and directory management 121
Linux permissions 121
Default permissions 122
Linux file ownership 123
Limited support for Access Control Lists 123
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Linux groups 123
Red Hat Linux’s private groups 123
Creating a special group 124
Quotas 127
The boot process 127
Configuring quota configuration files 128
Configuring quotas for a user 129
Configuring quotas for a group 131
Setting a grace period 132
Activating quotas 132
Conclusion 133
Chapter 5: Connecting Linux Workstations 135
Configuring the workstation 136
Samba client packages 136
Connecting to a Domain 137
Finding shared directories 137
Mounting directories 139
Linux login batch files 143
Peer-to-peer Workgroups 147
Setting up accounts 149
A PDC and a Windows Domain member server 149
Windows PDC and Linux Domain member server 150
Linux PDC and Linux Domain member server 151
Conclusion 152
Chapter 6: Connecting Windows Workstations 153
Preparing accounts 153
Logon scripts 154
Profiles 154
Configuring the Microsoft workstation 155
Connecting a Windows 95/98/ME workstation to a Domain 156
Creating a Windows 95/98/ME Workgroup share 167
Windows NT 4 Workstation 168
Windows 2000 Professional 177
Windows XP Professional 186
Text-mode network commands 193
Troubleshooting 195
Samba syntax 195
Samba logs 196
Conclusion 197