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Samba Domaincontroller For Small Workgroups With SWAT On Fedora 8Samba Domaincontroller For Small Workgroups With SWAT On Fedora 8Version 1.0 This document describes how to set up and configure a Samba Domaincontroller for small workgroups (up to 250 users) on Fedora 8 with the Samba Web Administration Tool. The resulting system provides an easy to manage domaincontroller for your Windows network. This howto is a practical guide without any warranty - it doesn't cover the theoretical backgrounds. There are many ways to set up such a system - this is the way I chose.
1 Preliminary NoteI used a minimal Fedora 8 installation without GUI etc for this howto. Additionally I had to deinstall Firefox after the minimal installation. Hostname: server1.example.com
2 Preparation2.1 YumFirst we install some packages to speed up yum and prevent problems with packages. yum install yum-fastestmirror yum-skip-broken
2.2 SELinuxSELinux should be disabled. If you're not sure if it is disabled enter: cat /etc/selinux/config | grep ^SELINUX= Disable SELinux if it is enabled: vi /etc/selinux/config Change: SELINUX=enforcing To: SELINUX=disabled Afterwards reboot the system. reboot
2.3 UpdateTime to update your system. yum -y update
3 Samba & CUPSNow we install Samba, the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT), and printer drivers for CUPS. yum install samba samba-client samba-swat gutenprint-cups gutenprint-foomatic foomatic printer-filters compat-expat1 libpaper If you want to use HP printers install a few more packages. yum install hplip cups-devel ghostscript qt4 pyqt4 python-devel python-reportlab libjpeg-devel net-snmp net-snmp-devel Note: net-snmp and net-snmp-devel are only needed for network-printers. If you want to use a network-printer, you have to open a few ports in the firewall: jetdirect:tcp (9100), snmp:tcp and snmp:udp (161). How to adjust the firewall settings is explained in step 4.1.
4 Basic Configuration4.1 FirewallWe have to open a few ports so that the clients can connect to Samba. system-config-firewall-tui
Set Samba as a trusted service.
4.2 XinetdIf you set up a server without gui you have to add an additional IP (your workstation) to the swat configuration to use the swat webinterface. vi /etc/xinetd.d/swat Change: only_from = 127.0.0.1 To: only_from = 127.0.0.1 %workstation_ip%
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