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  77 >I. General installation</H1
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  83 ><H1
  84 >Introduction</H1
  85 ><P
  86 >This part contains general info on how to install samba
  87 and how to configure the parts of samba you will most likely need.
  88 PLEASE read this.</P
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  95 >Table of Contents</B
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  97 ><DT
  98 >1. <A
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 100 >How to Install and Test SAMBA</A
 101 ></DT
 102 ><DD
 103 ><DL
 104 ><DT
 105 >1.1. <A
 106 HREF="install.html#AEN26"
 107 >Obtaining and installing samba</A
 108 ></DT
 109 ><DT
 110 >1.2. <A
 111 HREF="install.html#AEN31"
 112 >Configuring samba</A
 113 ></DT
 114 ><DD
 115 ><DL
 116 ><DT
 117 >1.2.1. <A
 118 HREF="install.html#AEN36"
 119 >Editing the smb.conf file</A
 120 ></DT
 121 ><DT
 122 >1.2.2. <A
 123 HREF="install.html#AEN58"
 124 >SWAT</A
 125 ></DT
 126 ></DL
 127 ></DD
 128 ><DT
 129 >1.3. <A
 130 HREF="install.html#AEN64"
 131 >Try listing the shares available on your
 132         server</A
 133 ></DT
 134 ><DT
 135 >1.4. <A
 136 HREF="install.html#AEN73"
 137 >Try connecting with the unix client</A
 138 ></DT
 139 ><DT
 140 >1.5. <A
 141 HREF="install.html#AEN89"
 142 >Try connecting from a DOS, WfWg, Win9x, WinNT,
 143         Win2k, OS/2, etc... client</A
 144 ></DT
 145 ><DT
 146 >1.6. <A
 147 HREF="install.html#AEN103"
 148 >What If Things Don't Work?</A
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 152 ><DT
 153 >1.6.1. <A
 154 HREF="install.html#AEN108"
 155 >Scope IDs</A
 156 ></DT
 157 ><DT
 158 >1.6.2. <A
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 160 >Locking</A
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 165 ></DD
 166 ><DT
 167 >2. <A
 168 HREF="browsing-quick.html"
 169 >Quick Cross Subnet Browsing / Cross Workgroup Browsing guide</A
 170 ></DT
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 174 >2.1. <A
 175 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN130"
 176 >Discussion</A
 177 ></DT
 178 ><DT
 179 >2.2. <A
 180 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN139"
 181 >Use of the "Remote Announce" parameter</A
 182 ></DT
 183 ><DT
 184 >2.3. <A
 185 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN153"
 186 >Use of the "Remote Browse Sync" parameter</A
 187 ></DT
 188 ><DT
 189 >2.4. <A
 190 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN158"
 191 >Use of WINS</A
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 193 ><DT
 194 >2.5. <A
 195 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN169"
 196 >Do NOT use more than one (1) protocol on MS Windows machines</A
 197 ></DT
 198 ><DT
 199 >2.6. <A
 200 HREF="browsing-quick.html#AEN177"
 201 >Name Resolution Order</A
 202 ></DT
 203 ></DL
 204 ></DD
 205 ><DT
 206 >3. <A
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 208 >User information database</A
 209 ></DT
 210 ><DD
 211 ><DL
 212 ><DT
 213 >3.1. <A
 214 HREF="passdb.html#AEN227"
 215 >Introduction</A
 216 ></DT
 217 ><DT
 218 >3.2. <A
 219 HREF="passdb.html#AEN234"
 220 >Important Notes About Security</A
 221 ></DT
 222 ><DD
 223 ><DL
 224 ><DT
 225 >3.2.1. <A
 226 HREF="passdb.html#AEN249"
 227 >Advantages of SMB Encryption</A
 228 ></DT
 229 ><DT
 230 >3.2.2. <A
 231 HREF="passdb.html#AEN254"
 232 >Advantages of non-encrypted passwords</A
 233 ></DT
 234 ></DL
 235 ></DD
 236 ><DT
 237 >3.3. <A
 238 HREF="passdb.html#AEN260"
 239 >The smbpasswd Command</A
 240 ></DT
 241 ><DT
 242 >3.4. <A
 243 HREF="passdb.html#AEN291"
 244 >Plain text</A
 245 ></DT
 246 ><DT
 247 >3.5. <A
 248 HREF="passdb.html#AEN296"
 249 >TDB</A
 250 ></DT
 251 ><DT
 252 >3.6. <A
 253 HREF="passdb.html#AEN299"
 254 >LDAP</A
 255 ></DT
 256 ><DD
 257 ><DL
 258 ><DT
 259 >3.6.1. <A
 260 HREF="passdb.html#AEN301"
 261 >Introduction</A
 262 ></DT
 263 ><DT
 264 >3.6.2. <A
 265 HREF="passdb.html#AEN321"
 266 >Introduction</A
 267 ></DT
 268 ><DT
 269 >3.6.3. <A
 270 HREF="passdb.html#AEN350"
 271 >Supported LDAP Servers</A
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 273 ><DT
 274 >3.6.4. <A
 275 HREF="passdb.html#AEN355"
 276 >Schema and Relationship to the RFC 2307 posixAccount</A
 277 ></DT
 278 ><DT
 279 >3.6.5. <A
 280 HREF="passdb.html#AEN367"
 281 >Configuring Samba with LDAP</A
 282 ></DT
 283 ><DT
 284 >3.6.6. <A
 285 HREF="passdb.html#AEN414"
 286 >Accounts and Groups management</A
 287 ></DT
 288 ><DT
 289 >3.6.7. <A
 290 HREF="passdb.html#AEN419"
 291 >Security and sambaAccount</A
 292 ></DT
 293 ><DT
 294 >3.6.8. <A
 295 HREF="passdb.html#AEN439"
 296 >LDAP specials attributes for sambaAccounts</A
 297 ></DT
 298 ><DT
 299 >3.6.9. <A
 300 HREF="passdb.html#AEN509"
 301 >Example LDIF Entries for a sambaAccount</A
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 305 ><DT
 306 >3.7. <A
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 308 >MySQL</A
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 312 ><DT
 313 >3.7.1. <A
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 315 >Building</A
 316 ></DT
 317 ><DT
 318 >3.7.2. <A
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 320 >Creating the database</A
 321 ></DT
 322 ><DT
 323 >3.7.3. <A
 324 HREF="passdb.html#AEN535"
 325 >Configuring</A
 326 ></DT
 327 ><DT
 328 >3.7.4. <A
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 330 >Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password</A
 331 ></DT
 332 ><DT
 333 >3.7.5. <A
 334 HREF="passdb.html#AEN557"
 335 >Getting non-column data from the table</A
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 342 >Passdb XML plugin</A
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 347 >3.8.1. <A
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 349 >Building</A
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 352 >3.8.2. <A
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 354 >Usage</A
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