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Samba Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly 1st Edition November 1999 1-56592-449-5, Order Number: 4495 416 pages, $34.95 Buy the hardcopy Table of Contents Chapter 4 Disk Shares 4.7 Virtual Servers Virtual servers are a technique for creating the illusion of multiple NetBIOS servers on the network, when in reality there is only one. The technique is simple to implement: a machine simply registers more than one NetBIOS name in association with its IP address. There are tangible benefits to doing this. The accounting department, for example, might have an accountingserver, and clients of it would see just the accounting disks and printers. The marketing department could have their own server, marketing, with their own reports, and so on. However, all the services would be provided by one medium-sized Unix workstation (and one relaxed administrator), instead of having one small server and one administrator per department. Samba will allow a Unix server to use more than one NetBIOS name with the netbios aliases option. See Table 4.6. Table 4.6: Virtual Server Configuration Options Option Parameters Function Default Scope netbios aliases List of NetBIOS names Additional NetBIOS names to respond to, for use with multiple “virtual” Samba servers. None Global 4.7.1 netbios aliases The netbiosaliasesoption can be used to give the Samba server more than one NetBIOS name. Each NetBIOS name listed as a value will be displayed in the Network Neighborhood of a browsing machine. When a connection is requested to any machine, however, it will connect to the same Samba server. This might come in handy, for example, if you re transferring three departments data to a single Unix server with modern large disks, and are retiring or reallocating the old NT servers. If the three servers are called sales, accounting, and admin, you can have Samba represent all three servers with the following options: 127
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