Detailed Objectives

(LPIC-2 Version 4.5)

Weight: 5

Description: Candidates should be able to set up a Samba server for various clients. This objective includes setting up Samba as a member in an Active Directory. Furthermore, the configuration of simple CIFS and printer shares is covered. Also covered is a configuring a Linux client to use a Samba server. Troubleshooting installations is also tested.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Samba 4 documentation
• Samba 4 configuration files
• Samba 4 tools and utilities and daemons
• Mounting CIFS shares on Linux
• Mapping Windows user names to Linux user names
• User-Level, Share-Level and AD security

Terms and Utilities:

• smbd, nmbd, winbindd
• smbcontrol, smbstatus, testparm, smbpasswd, nmblookup
• samba-tool
• net
• smbclient
• mount.cifs
• /etc/samba/
• /var/log/samba/