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| Weight | 5 |
| 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. Troubleshooting installations is also tested. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Samba version 3 documentation
- Samba configuration files
- Samba tools and utilities
- Mounting Samba shares on Linux
- Samba daemons
- Mapping Windows user names to Linux user names
- User-Level and Share-Level security
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- smbd, nmbd
- smbstatus, testparm, smbpasswd, nmblookup
- smbclient
- net
- /etc/smb/*
- /var/log/samba/
