Samba File and Print Server for SCO OpenServer from Caldera

We recommend that you use the O'Reilly & Associates publication "Using Samba" to configure and administer your Samba server. Links to Samba HOWTO documents and manual pages are also provided below.

Samba Documentation

• Books
  • Using Samba - by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly.
• Samba HOWTO Collection
• security = domain in Samba 2.x
• Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX Using Winbind
• Setting Samba as an MS-DFS server
• UNIX Permission Bits and Samba 2.x
• OS/2 Clients and Samba
• Printing under Samba 2.2.x
• Integrating Name Resolution and Authentication Services
• Entire Collection (one file; includes developer information)
• Daemons
  • smbd - the SMB daemon
  • nmbd - the NetBIOS nameserver
  • winbindd - the winbind daemon
• Configuration Files
  • smb.conf - the main Samba configuration file
  • lmhosts - NetBIOS hosts file
  • smbpasswd - SMB password file
• Administrative Utilities
  • smbcontrol - send control messages to Samba daemons
  • smbpasswd - managing SMB passwords
  • SWAT - web configuration tool
  • make_smbcodepage - codepage creation
  • make_unicodemap - unicode map file creation
  • smbrun - internal smbd utility
• Client Tools
  • rpcclient - command line MS-RPC client
  • smbtar - SMB backup tool
  • smbclient - command line SMB client
  • smbmnt - helper utility for mounting SMB filesystems on Linux hosts
  • smbmount - user space tool for mounting SMB filesystems under Linux
  • smbspool - command line SMB print client
  • smbumount - user space tool for umounting SMB filesystems under Linux
• Diagnostic Utilities
  • smbstatus - monitoring Samba
  • testparm - validating your config file
  • testprns - testing printer configuration
  • nmblookup - NetBIOS name query tool