%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ The Samba package provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients and Windows networking to Linux clients. Samba can also be configured as a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement (with caveats working with NT PDC's and BDC's), a file/print server acting as a member of a Windows NT 4.0 or Active Directory domain and a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver (which amongst other things provides LAN browsing support). Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &samba3-md5sum; Download size: &samba3-size; Estimated disk space required: &samba3-buildsize; Estimated build time: &samba3-time; , , , , or , , or , , , Valgrind and (used to encrypt access to SWAT) Install Samba by running the following commands: cd source && install -d /var/cache/samba && ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-piddir=/var/run \ --with-fhs \ --with-smbmount && make && make install && mv /usr/lib/samba/libsmbclient.so /usr/lib && ln -sf ../libsmbclient.so /usr/lib/samba && chmod 644 /usr/include/libsmbclient.h \ /usr/lib/samba/libsmbclient.a && install -m755 nsswitch/libnss_win{s,bind}.so /lib && ln -sf libnss_winbind.so /lib/libnss_winbind.so.2 && ln -sf libnss_wins.so /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 && cp ../examples/smb.conf.default /etc/samba && install -m644 ../docs/*.pdf /usr/share/samba && if [ -f nsswitch/pam_winbind.so ]; then install -m755 nsswitch/pam_winbind.so /lib/security fi You may want to run configure with the --help parameter. There may be other parameters needed to take advantage of the optional dependencies. install -d /var/cache/samba: This directory is needed for proper operation of the smbd and nmbd daemons. --sysconfdir=/etc: Sets the configuration file directory to avoid the default of /usr/etc. --localstatedir=/var: Sets the variable data directory to avoid the default of /usr/var. --with-fhs: Assigns all other file paths in a manner compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). --with-smbmount: Orders the creation of an extra binary for use by the mount command so that mounting remote SMB (Windows) shares becomes no more complex than mounting remote NFS shares. --with-pam: Use this parameter to link Linux-PAM into the build. This also builds the pam_winbind.so PAM module. You can find instructions on how to configure and use the module by running man winbindd. mv /usr/lib/samba/libsmbclient.so ...; ln -sf ../libsmbclient.so ...: The libsmbclient.so library is needed by other packages. This command moves it to a location where other packages can find it. install -m755 nsswitch/libnss_win{s,bind}.so /lib: The nss libraries are not installed by default. If you intend to use winbindd for domain auth, and/or WINS name resolution, you need these libraries. ln -sf libnss_winbind.so /lib/libnss_winbind.so.2 and ln -sf libnss_wins.so /lib/libnss_wins.so.2: These symlinks are required by glibc to use the nss libraries. cp ../examples/smb.conf.default /etc/samba: This copies a default smb.conf into /etc/samba. This sample configuration will not work unless edited for your site, and renamed smb.conf. Due to the complexity and the many various uses for Samba, complete configuration is well beyond the scope of the BLFS book. Advanced configurations including setting up Primary and Backup Domain Controllers are advanced topics and cannot be adequately covered in BLFS (it should be noted, however, that a Samba BDC cannot be used as a fallback for a Windows PDC, and conversely, a Windows BDC cannot be used as a fallback for a Samba PDC). Many complete books have been written on these topics alone. There is quite a bit of documentation available which covers many of these advanced configurations. Point your web browser to the links below to view some of the documentation included with the Samba package: Using Samba, 2nd Edition; a popular book published by O'Reilly The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide Samba-3 by Example The Samba-3 man Pages The built in SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) utility can be used for basic configuration of the Samba installation, but because it may be inconvenient, undesireable or perhaps even impossible to gain access to the console, BLFS recommends setting up access to SWAT using Stunnel. First you must add entries to /etc/services and modify the inetd/xinetd configuration. Add swat and swat_tunnel entries to /etc/services with the following commands: echo "swat 901/tcp" >> /etc/services && echo "swat_tunnel 902/tcp" >> /etc/services If inetd is used, the following command will add the swat_tunnel entry to /etc/inetd.conf: echo "swat_tunnel stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat" \ >> /etc/inetd.conf Issue a killall -HUP inetd to reread the changed inetd.conf file. If xinetd is used, the following command will add the swat_tunnel entry to /etc/xinetd.conf (you may need to modify or remove the only_from line to include the desired host[s]): cat >> /etc/xinetd.conf << "EOF" service swat_tunnel { port = 902 socket_type = stream wait = no only_from = 127.0.0.1 user = root server = /usr/sbin/swat log_on_failure += USERID } EOF Issue a killall -HUP xinetd to reread the changed xinetd.conf file. Next, you must add an entry for the swat service to the /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf file: cat >> /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf << "EOF" [swat] accept = 901 connect = 902 EOF Restart the stunnel daemon using the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/stunnel restart SWAT can be launched by pointing your web browser to https://[CA_DN_field]:901. Substitute the hostname listed in the DN field of the CA certificate used with Stunnel for [CA_DN_field]. If you linked Linux-PAM into the Samba build, you'll need to create an /etc/pam.d/samba file. If you use CUPS for print services, and you wish to print to a printer attached to an SMB client, you need to create an SMB backend device. To create the device, issue the following command: ln -sf /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb For your convenience, boot scripts have been provided for Samba. There are two included in the package. The first, samba, will start the smbd and nmbd daemons needed to provide SMB/CIFS services. The second script, winbind, starts the winbindd daemon, used for providing Windows domain services to Linux clients. Install the samba script with the following command: make install-samba If you also need the winbind script: make install-winbind The Samba package contains findsmb, mount.smbfs, net, nmbd, nmblookup, ntlm_auth, pdbedit, profiles, rpcclient, smbcacls, smbclient, smbcontrol, smbcquotas, smbd, smbmnt, smbmount, smbpasswd, smbspool, smbstatus, smbtar, smbtree, smbumount, swat, tdbbackup, tdbdump, tdbtool, testparm, testprns, wbinfo and winbindd. findsmb lists information about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet. mount.smbfs provides /bin/mount with a way to mount remote Windows (or Samba) fileshares. net is a tool for administration of Samba and remote CIFS servers, similar to the net utility for DOS/Windows. nmbd is the Samba NetBIOS name server. nmblookup is used to query NetBIOS names and map them to IP addresses. ntlm_auth is a tool to allow external access to Winbind's NTLM authentication function. pdbedit is a tool used to manage the SAM database. profiles is a utility that reports and changes SIDs in Windows registry files. It currently only supports NT. rpcclient is used to execute MS-RPC client side functions. smbcacls is used to manipulate NT access control lists. smbclient is a SMB/CIFS access utility, similar to FTP. smbcontrol is used to control running smbd, nmbd and winbindd daemons. smbcquotas is used to manipulate NT quotas on SMB file shares. smbd is the main Samba daemon. smbmnt is a helper application used by the smbmount program to do the actual mounting of SMB shares. It can be installed setuid root if you want normal users to be able to mount their SMB shares. smbmount, usually invoked as mount.smbfs by the mount command when using the -t smbfs option, mounts a Linux SMB filesystem. smbpasswd changes a user's Samba password. smbspool sends a print job to an SMB printer. smbstatus reports current Samba connections. smbtar is a shell script used for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to Linux tape drives or a file. smbtree is a text-based SMB network browser. smbumount is used by normal users to unmount SMB filesystems, provided that it is setuid root. swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool. tdbbackup is a tool for backing up or validating the integrity of Samba .tdb files. tdbdump is a tool used to print the contents of a Samba .tdb file. tdbtool is a tool which allows simple database manipulation on the commandline. testparm checks an smb.conf file for proper syntax. testprns tests printer names. wbinfo queries a running winbindd daemon. winbindd resolves names from NT servers.