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Learning RHEL Networking

You're reading from   Learning RHEL Networking Gain Linux administration skills by learning new networking concepts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287831
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Enterprise Linux 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Network Settings 3. Configuring Key Network Services 4. Implementing iSCSI SANs 5. Implementing btrfs 6. File Sharing with NFS 7. Implementing Windows Shares with Samba 4 8. Integrating RHEL 7 into Microsoft Active Directory Domains 9. Deploying the Apache HTTPD Server 10. Securing the System with SELinux 11. Network Security with firewalld Index

Managing Samba services


To access the resources of Samba, a user needs a POSIX (Linux) user account available to them and a Samba account. The POSIX account can be an ordinary account within the /etc/passwd file or this account can be centralized in LDAP or an Active Directory. When a POSIX account is enabled for Samba, additional attributes that are required by Windows systems are added to the user account. To enable an existing POSIX account with Samba, we can use the /bin/pdbedit command. This can work with Samba accounts in the following account stores:

  • The /etc/samba/smbpasswd file

  • The tdbsam database located at /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb (this is the default samba account store)

  • The OpenLDAP directory services

As existing domain accounts have the required attributes for Samba, there is no requirement to enable those accounts for Samba.

Firstly, we will list all existing Samba enabled accounts. Of course, we have only installed Samba and not enabled any other account. Also, we only...

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