This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.

This document is a step by step guide for configuring Ubuntu 7.10 as a Samba Domain Controller with an LDAP backend (OpenLDAP). The point is to configure a server that can be comparable, from a central authentication point of view, to a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. The end result will be a server with an LDAP directory for storing user, group, and computer accounts. A Windows XP Professional SP2 workstation will be able to join the domain once properly configured.

La Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) ha raggiunto un accordo con Microsoft per ottenere la documentazione completa relativa alla tecnologia SMB, che presiede alla gestione di file, stampanti e porte seriali in ambiente di rete Microsoft Windows', CAPTION, 'Windows',BELOW,RIGHT, WIDTH, 300, FGCOLOR, '#CCCCCC', BGCOLOR, '#660000', TEXTCOLOR, '#000000', CAPCOLOR, '#FFFFFF', OFFSETX, -50, OFFSETY, 10);" class="mosinfopop" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #000000; cursor: help">

This document describes how to set up and configure a Samba Domaincontroller for small workgroups (up to 250 users) on Fedora 8 with the Samba Web Administration Tool. The resulting system provides an easy-to-manage domaincontroller for your Windows network.