Section 1.9. What Can Samba Do?

1.9. What Can Samba Do?

We'll wrap up by showing how Samba can currently help out and how it is limited. Table 1-7 summarizes the roles that Samba can and cannot play in a Windows NT or Active Directory domain or a Windows workgroup. The Windows domain protocols are proprietary and have not been documented by Microsoft, and therefore must be analyzed by developers before Samba can support them.

Table 1-7. Samba roles (as of version 3.0.22)

Role	Can perform?
File server	Yes
Printer server	Yes
Microsoft DFS server	Yes
Windows NT 4 domain controller	Yes
Interact with Windows DCs in the same domain	No
Active Directory DC	No
Windows 95/98/Me authentication	Yes
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 authentication	Yes
Local master browser	Yes
Domain master browser	Yes
Primary WINS server	Yes
Secondary WINS server	No