DOS and Windows

SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0 includes the following products for interoperability with Microsoft^® operating systems:

• Samba, SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX, version 3

• Heimdal Kerberos 5, version 0.6

Samba SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX

Samba is open source software that allows UNIX systems to act as file and print servers to Microsoft Windows^® clients. Samba provides filesharing capabilities using native Microsoft SMB and CIFS protocols.

Samba replaces the Advanced File and Print Server (AFPS) product.

Note the following when installing and using Samba:

• Samba documentation and manual pages are available from the DOS and Windows category in the online documentation.

  The Samba manual pages do not always reflect the true location of files and commands on SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0. All the Samba commands (swat, smbclient, and so forth) are located in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, and so are in the path of most users and administrators.

• A script for Samba has been added to the mkdev(ADM) configuration utility.

  Before running Samba, you must run the mkdev script to activate the software:
  
  # mkdev samba

  The default Samba configuration file, smb.conf, is located under /etc/samba. This file needs to be edited before starting Samba. You can do this by running mkdev samba.

• After performing initial configuration using mkdev samba, use the SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) utility for any additional configuration tasks. You access this tool by running a web browser and entering the following URL:
  
  http://localhost:901

  Log in to SWAT using the root user and password.

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  NOTE: If you choose to use SWAT to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, it is important to note that additions made to the file manually may be deleted by the system later.

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• Encrypted passwords are enabled by default. To use encrypted passwords, a Samba account must be created for each user. If you do not wish to create a Samba account for each user, turn off encrypted passwords by editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and making the following settings:

     encrypt passwords = no
  

  This release of Samba defaults to:

     passdb backend = smbpasswd
  

  To create the smb root user and corresponding password, initialize the smbpasswd database by running:
  
  # smbpasswd -a root

  To switch to the tdbsam passdb backend:

  1. Set the following:

        passdb backend = tdbsam, smbpasswd
     

  2. Run the following:
     
     # pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam

  3. Remove the smbpasswd from the passdb backend configuration (passdb backend = tdbsam) in /etc/samba/smb.conf.

• The Samba /usr/bin/net command has been renamed /usr/bin/smbnet on SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0. This change was made to avoid a conflict with some SCOadmin utilities that treat /usr/bin/net as a NetBIOS command.

• The current implementation does not support use of the following Samba features:

  • smbfs filesystem

  • smbmnt command

Heimdal (Kerberos 5) notes

The Heimdal (Kerberos 5) package is supplied in support of Samba. Although Heimdal is a general purpose implementation of Kerberos 5 and should work with any user-level utility that needs it, the utilities themselves need to be linked against the Heimdal libraries at build-time. Currently, only Samba has Kerberos 5 support linked in.

The Heimdal online documentation is available from the Networking category in the online documentation.