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Implementing Samba 4

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Published in Apr 2014

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ISBN-13 9781782166580

Pages 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Marcelo Leal

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Implementing Samba 4

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Installing the Samba 4 Server

2. Provisioning Samba 4 as an AD Domain Controller

3. Managing the Samba Active Directory Server

4. Replacing a Microsoft Windows Active Directory Server

5. Upgrading from Samba Server Version 3

6. Printing and File Services

7. Extending the Active Directory Schema Using Samba 4

8. Implementing a Highly Available Distributed File Server

9. The Samba 4 Python Scripting Interface

References

Index

Exploring and using the Python interface of the Samba 4 Server

Python [59] is a programming language that runs on various platforms and operating systems (for example, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Illumos [60], FreeBSD [69], Mac OS, and others). Python has some similarities with other interpreted programming languages such as Tcl, Perl, and Ruby, but includes some distinguishing features, such as [61] strong introspection capabilities, intuitive object orientation, full modularity (supporting hierarchical packages), and so on. Based on Wheezy 7.2, a Debian GNU/Linux distribution, we can start playing with Python and the bindings from Samba 4 very quickly. Let's just start looking at the package that already has the python modules ready for installation on Debian Wheezy:

root@addc:~# apt-cache show python-samba

Description-en: Python bindings for Samba
    Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
    providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft...

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Authors (1)

Marcelo Leal

Marcelo Leal studied at Unisinos, where he undertook a Bachelor's degree in Computing Science. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years, he has gained experience as a network/system administrator, support manager, Unix/Linux specialist, storage architect, and most recently, as a solutions architect. He was involved in open source projects since the beginning of his career and has developed some open source tools and submitted patches to the GNU/Linux and FreeBSD kernel. In 2005, he was honored for his participation in the Prmio TI e Governo for the project ""Metrpole"", Porto Alegre/RS. He was one of the founders of the Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group (PoaOSUG) and was a contributor for the Open High Availability Cluster Community (OHAC) within the OpenSolaris Project; he was the first person outside Sun Microsystems to contribute code to the Open Cluster software. He received three prizes at the OpenSolaris innovation awards program (2007-2008), and presented a solution for Storage High Availability using nonshared disks at the first OHAC Summit in San Francisco/California, USA (2009). In 2013, he presented a highly available, scalable, and high performance three-layer storage solution at SNIA SpeedConf, Santa Clara/California, USA, which, besides adding a lot of value to the storage service, provided huge savings in capex and opex costs (millions of dollars in three years). He has led the architecture and development of a distributed Storage Appliance that, in three years, provided more than 1.5 million operations per second (CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI) for almost 10PB in an area available for a diverse range of products. In 2010, he wrote ZFS -Para usurios OpenSolaris,Windows, Mac e Linux, Brasport, the first book about ZFS in Brazilian Portuguese and actually one of the few books about ZFS available in a language other than English. He tries to write regularly on his blog at http://www.eall.com.br/blog. Marcelo profile can be found on LinkedIn(https://www.linkedin.com/in/marceloleal). Recently a contest was held on Marcelo's blog(www.eall.com.br/blog/?p=3071) which was received with good response.

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