1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,599 Hey everyone and welcome back. 2 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:19,400 So what we're going to talk about in this skill right here is all about something called 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:20,519 Samba. 4 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:22,760 Now what exactly is Samba? 5 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,000 What does it do for us? 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,480 Well as per usual let's dive into the details and talk about it then shall we? 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:34,520 To begin the very first thing that I should specify is that what Samba is going to allow 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,719 us to do is going to allow us to share resources. 9 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:43,480 So maybe you happen to be working for a company or maybe you're on a university campus whatever 10 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:44,679 it may be. 11 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:48,400 Very often individuals are going to want to be able to share particular resources that 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,400 may be particular folders and files or perhaps they want to be able to share out printers. 13 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:59,519 So the reality is we have to be able to facilitate this type of action. 14 00:00:59,519 --> 00:01:04,519 Now on Windows based systems there is something called SMB. 15 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:11,280 This is the server message block and this is used with respect to sharing out different 16 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:16,120 resources on Windows based systems used for network discovery so on so forth. 17 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,719 Now like I say this is how Windows based systems operate but as you may have noticed that we 18 00:01:21,719 --> 00:01:26,920 are dealing with an LPIC2 certification right here so we are primarily focused on Linux 19 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,280 systems but here is the deal. 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,159 In the real world there is very often going to be a mix of Windows systems and Linux based 21 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:36,519 servers or systems. 22 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:42,920 Now what if we want to be able to share information from our Linux machine with Windows based 23 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,120 machines or vice versa. 24 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:49,039 Well the reality is we do have an implementation of SMB effectively. 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,000 Our Linux and this is known as SAMBA. 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,320 So really if we want to be able to share our resources or printers or files or folders 27 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:03,600 with different operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 7 whether it may be or just 28 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,200 with different Linux machines we are able to do just that using SAMBA. 29 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:15,960 Now with respect to SAMBA on Linux there are two different components one is called NMBD. 30 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,680 This is the NetBios message block domain. 31 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:28,920 Now NetBios if you do not know this is ultimately an acronym for Network Basic Input Slash Output 32 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,840 System and this is going to allow different types of applications to actually talk to 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,640 one another when they are on the same network. 34 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,840 So really for the purposes of what we are trying to do for discovering different servers 35 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,319 or discovering different clients on this particular system that we are on we actually 36 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:49,599 want to leverage NetBios. 37 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:55,400 So let's maybe say we have a Linux machine here and a Windows machine here and let's 38 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,199 maybe say we have a SAMBA server. 39 00:02:58,199 --> 00:03:05,120 All of these devices can ultimately discover one another in this manner but one thing that 40 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,960 is really important to note is that the actual transferring of files that is facilitated via 41 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:11,960 TCP IP. 42 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:19,439 Now the way this is actually handled directly is by something called SMBD. 43 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:22,920 This is the server message block daemon. 44 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:29,120 So for server discovery we will have NMBD for the actual transferring of particular 45 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,180 files that we are sharing so on and so forth that will be using SMBD. 46 00:03:34,180 --> 00:03:39,040 Now with our SAMBA installation we will actually have these two different daemons that we can 47 00:03:39,039 --> 00:03:44,120 use to help us carry out these processes but understand the differences between what 48 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,239 they actually do. 49 00:03:45,239 --> 00:03:51,560 So whether we happen to be wanting to share out particular files between different users 50 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,840 on different systems irrespective if they happen to be on Linux or Windows or we are 51 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,560 looking to share out particular folders or perhaps maybe we want to share out particular 52 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,280 printers. 53 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,599 And that the ability to do this is going to be enabled by SAMBA itself. 54 00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:15,199 Now with respect to SAMBA we can have a SAMBA server or on our system we could install a 55 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:20,759 SAMBA client which can ultimately talk to a SAMBA server but the primary focus of this 56 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:25,199 skill will be mainly around the configuration of the SAMBA server. 57 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:30,160 Now one thing to say before we actually begin looking at the very basics of how SAMBA actually 58 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:36,120 operates is that for the purposes of the LPIC 2 examination we are primarily going to be 59 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,240 focused on something called SAMBA 4. 60 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:46,320 This is the fourth version of SAMBA but also we do have to be aware of SAMBA 3 and the 61 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,160 scope of that awareness is really limited to the SAMBA 3 documentation. 62 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:57,379 So what I want you to just know is that for the purposes of the examination if you need 63 00:04:57,379 --> 00:05:03,339 to know where the SAMBA 3 documentation is you can find this within user share and then 64 00:05:03,339 --> 00:05:10,699 within doc and then within that doc directory there should be a directory called SAMBA hyphen 65 00:05:10,699 --> 00:05:17,379 followed by the SAMBA version number so that could be maybe 3.1.1 whatever it may be and 66 00:05:17,379 --> 00:05:23,579 then within this directory we would have a folder called HTML docs and then within that 67 00:05:23,579 --> 00:05:31,219 we would have our actual HTML file which would be index.html but like I say primarily we 68 00:05:31,219 --> 00:05:33,620 are going to be focusing on SAMBA 4. 69 00:05:33,620 --> 00:05:38,219 So what we want to do is to begin to understand the basics of the SAMBA service and while 70 00:05:38,219 --> 00:05:42,379 that is what we are going to be talking about in the very next nuggets I hope this has been 71 00:05:42,379 --> 00:05:45,060 informative for you and I'd like to thank you for viewing.