Free samba 3 pdc software for linux

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, Linux, OpenVMS, IBM System 390, UNIX, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server.

When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.

Samba is a software package that gives network administrators flexibility and freedom in terms of setup, configuration, and choice of systems and equipment.

Because of all that it offers, Samba has grown in popularity, and continues to do so, every year since its release in 1992.

Samba TNG is another SMB server for Unix-like operating systems. This software is concentrating on MSRPC interoperatability with Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003.
It provides PDC support and tools to remotely administer NT servers and workstations. Note that Samba TNG is currently in a beta stage. If you need advanced file/print serving capabilities, you should opt for Samba classic.
Enhancements:
- As with release 0.4, we highly recommend a working iconv library.
- Iconv is bundled with some C libraries - notably GNU libc - and shipped with almost all
- Linux systems, and some Unix systems.
- If your system does not have an iconv library, or (like Solaris) only has a limited one, we highly recommend installing the GNU libiconv, which you can find at http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ .
- Samba-TNG will still compile and run with its own iconv stubs, but this probably will not handle international character sets well, if at all.

GoSamba project is intended to handle the administration of SAMBA over the WWW.
Currently it can:
- create/manage and drop SAMBA-Users
- create/manage and drop shares
- export CSV data
- config a whole SAMBA server over the WWW
- communicate in german language

Samba::LDAP is a Perl module to manage a Samba PDC with an LDAP Backend.

SYNOPSIS

use Carp;
use Samba::LDAP;

my $samba = Samba::LDAP->new()
or croak "Cant create objectn";
my $domain = $samba->get_local_sid();

SMBGate provides a gateway and firewall with authentication managed by a Samba Primary Domain Controller. The firewall rules are set on a per-user basis.

Samba Commander is a text mode SMB network commander. In SMBC, you can browse the local network or you can use the search function to find the files.
You can also download/upload files and directories or create them both locally and remotely. SMBC has a resume function and supports UTF-8 characters.
Enhancements:
- fixed bug in function to retrying connection
- fixed bug in bookmark menu
- fixed bug in function to set username, password and workgroup

Gsmb provides a graphical interface allowing simplified management of the file of the Samba users file /etc/smbpasswd.

In initial Windows 95 releases, passwords for accessing shared volumes were sent as cleartext over the network. Sambda authentication used the /etc/passwd file on the server. The Windows 95 updates introduced encryption of these passwords. There are two methods for making Samba support this new authentication scheme:

- modify the register base of Win95 clients to reactivate cleartext passwords
- configure Samba so that it accepts the encrypted password

The second option is what we are interested in here.

Installation:

You can download version 0.5 (released 1999-09-30) of gsmb.

To activate the recognition of encrypted passwords, the option ENCRYPT PASSWORDS = yes should be positioned in the /etc/smb.conf configuration file.

In addition to this, it is necessary to create the Samba users file. On Redhat 5.2, this is called /etc/smbpasswd.

The Gsmb program allows the management of the Samba users by modifying this file. It uses the Gtk 1.2.0. library.

Usage:

At this point, the possibility of the program are the following:

- The function Quit presented in the menu "File" allow to quit the program (Incredible, isnt it !!)

- The function presented in the menu "smbpasswd/create smbpasswd version 1.9.x from passwd" will erase the "/etc/smbpasswd" and another one. The /etc/passwd is read and a Samba count is created for each Linux users. The /etc/smbpasswd is filled with the samba 1.9.x format.

- The function presented in the menu "smbpasswd/create smbpasswd version 2.0.x from passwd" will erase the "/etc/smbpasswd" and another one. The /etc/passwd is read and a Samba count is created for each Linux users. The /etc/smbpasswd is filled with the samba 2.0.x format.

- The function presented in the menu "smbpasswd/create another users" creates a linux users by calling the program Adduser.

- The buttons between the two list permits to create samba users. Before, just select in the linux list one or several users, select the format you want, and then click on the button with the arrows. This action will create the corresponding Samba users.

- Possibility to delete Samba users. First, select the Samba users (Dont forget the shift and crtl buttons for multiple selection) and then click on the button delete.

- You have the possibility now have a null password for Samba users. If the row for a user is red, then you have validate the Null password option for this user.

- You can disable Samba users accounts. For the format 1.9.x, the password field will be replaced by "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX". For the format 2.0.X, the "D" will be added in a field. In each case, you can see the state of the account in the first column of the samba users list.

Samba LDAP Tools++ is a branch of the smbldap-tool scripts.
It has Kerberos (Heimdal) support for passwords, LDAP hashes, and domain machines; support for DynDNS updates on Samba using BIND; and additional structures for system users that allow a single user to play different roles as RADIUS, LDAP, Kerberos, Samba, and Jabber users.
The project has many additions and functions that allow full support on new technologies.
Main features:
- Support for password changes using kerberos (heimdal)
- Support for {KRB5} hash
- Support for kerberos under domain workstations
- Support for dynamic updates on DNZ zones
- Adition of new structures for system users
Enhancements:
- Courier schema support was added.
- qmail schema was dropped.