Who should attend: This tutorial is intended for systems and network administrators who wish to integrate Samba running on a UNIX based machine with Microsoft Windows clients. The attendees need not be UNIX experts as long as they are comfortable with editing systems configuration files and common tasks such as using the ps and kill commands.

Samba is a freely available suite of programs that allows UNIX based machines to provide file and print services to Microsoft Windows PCs without installing any third-party software on the clients. This allows users to access necessary resources from both PC and UNIX workstations. As Samba makes its way into more and more network shops all over the world, it is common to see "configuring Samba servers" listed as a desired skill on many job descriptions for network administrators.

This tutorial will use real-world examples taken from daily administration tasks to show you how to:

	Install Samba from the ground up
	Configure a UNIX box to provide remote access to local files and printers from Microsoft Windows clients
	Configure Samba as a member of a Windows NT domain in order to utilize the domain's PDC for user authentication
	Use Samba as a domain controller
	Configure Samba to participate in network browsing
	Automate the daily tasks of managing Samba