Course Outline
Installation
- Installing Samba from packages
- Installing Samba from source
- Upgrading Samba
Standalone server
- File Sharing
- How POSIX permissions map to Windows permissions
- Differences between POSIX and Windows ACLs
- Print Serving
- Password Storage
- Samba VFS (Virtual File System) modules
- Recycle bin
- Antivirus integration
- Backup and restore
- Performance tuning
Domain membership
- What makes Samba a domain member
- Available ID mapping backends
- NSS service
- PAM authentication
- Coexistence with NFS
Domain control
- What makes Samba a domain controller
- Services and ports involved in Domain Control
- Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller
- Joining an additional Samba DC to an existing Active Directory
- The AD functional levels
- Storing Windows profiles and logon scripts
- Authenticating other services against Samba AD
- Setting up RFC2307 in AD
Replication
- Distributed File System (DFS)
- Directory Replication Service (DRS)
Requirements
- Basic knowlege of Linux
- BASH
Testimonials
Trainer, knowledge of trainer and ability to communicate complicated content and make it understandable.
- Capita Business Services Ltd
The content, very interesting.
Lowri Jones - Capita Business Services Ltd
Friendly informative and met objectives.
- Capita Business Services Ltd
Trainer was very engaging.
Ryan Goddard - Capita Business Services Ltd
For a very intense course, Richard gave a good high level overview for people who work in an IT Department but not actually undertaking the IT aspects of a job e.g. Cloud solutions, platforming, architecture...
- Capita Business Services Ltd
Richard was very knowledgable, clearly knew the subject area extremely well. Broke all of the complicated parts down into easier to understand chunks, and had great rapport with the group. He made a potentially tough and dry subject interesting. As a complete novice, I really enjoyed and found it very helpful for my role.
- Capita Business Services Ltd
It gave me a clear and in depth understanding of NAS and SAN storage
Joubert Choshi - Netcampus
The Lab and Practical side .
Nkosana Tsware - Netcampus
The Lab and Practical side .
Nkosana Tsware - Netcampus
The labs are more interesting as we get to run, create and learn the different commands.