Build a Samba PDC with LDAP backend

"This will not let you authenticate ssh users just a plain samba server for your windows clients."

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Samba 3.2 Has Been Released!

The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.

Setting up Samba server!!

This Document describes how to set up Samba to give SMB services for other computers on your local network. Lets get started!!

Instant backups with smbmount and grsync

Need a simple yet effective way to back up your laptop or desktop machine to a network-attached storage device or a network hard disk running Samba? Using Samba's smbmount utility and the grsync backup tool, you can set up a backup system that is both reliable and straightforward in use. And since both programs are available as packages for most Linux distributions, you don't have to get your hands dirty compiling from source code and fiddling with settings.

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