# SAMBA Project Documentation

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This book is a collection of HOWTOs added to Samba documentation over the years. Samba is always under development, and so is its' documentation. This release of the documentation represents a major revision or layout as well as contents. The most recent version of this document can be found at http://www.samba.org/ on the "Documentation" page. Please send updates to Jelmer Vernooij, John H. Terpstra or Gerald (Jerry) Carter.

The Samba-Team would like to express sincere thanks to the many people who have with or without their knowledge contributed to this update. The size and scope of this project would not have been possible without significant community contribution. A not insignificant number of ideas for inclusion (if not content itself) has been obtained from a number of Unofficial HOWTOs - to each such author a big "Thank-you" is also offered. Please keep publishing your Unofficial HOWTOs - they are a source of inspiration and application knowledge that is most to be desired by many Samba users and administrators.

## Legal Notice

This documentation is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. A copy of the license is included with the Samba source distribution. A copy can be found on-line at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt

## Attributions

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## General Installation

### Preparing Samba for Configuration

This section of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection contains general info on how to install samba and how to configure the parts of samba you will most likely need. PLEASE read this.

&IntroSMB; &UNIX-INSTALL; &FastStart;

## Server Configuration Basics

### First Steps in Server Configuration

Samba can operate in various modes within SMB networks. This HOWTO section contains information on configuring samba to function as the type of server your network requires. Please read this section carefully.

&ServerType; &Samba-PDC-HOWTO; &Samba-BDC-HOWTO; &DOMAIN-MEMBER; &StandAloneServer; &ClientConfig;

## Advanced Configuration

### Valuable Nuts and Bolts Information

Samba has several features that you might want or might not want to use. The chapters in this part each cover specific Samba features.

&NetworkBrowsing; &Passdb; &GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO; &AccessControls; &locking; &SecuringSamba; &Trusts; &MS-Dfs-Setup; &PRINTER-DRIVER2; &CUPS; &VFS; &WINBIND; &AdvancedNetworkAdmin; &PolicyMgmt; &ProfileMgmt; &Samba-PAM; &IntegratingWithWindows; &unicode; &Backup; &HighAvailability;

## Migration and Updating

&upgrading; &NT4Migration; &SWAT;

## Troubleshooting

&Diagnosis; &problems; &BUGS;

## Appendixes

&Compiling; &Portability; &Other-Clients; &SPEED; &DNS-DHCP-Configuration; &Further-Resources;