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Samba Auth

imported from wiki, 7 September 2010

Setup Linux to authenticate against a Samba server

This will show you how to setup Debian GNU/Linux to authenticate against a remote Samba server (Samba could also imply a Windows PDC too). It also details how to setup pam_mount to mount Samba shares automatically on login, so when a Samba user logs on to the Linux client, they get their $HOME as their home directory on the server. There’s also a shell script I devised to allow changing of passwords.

The article is based on a Linux client running Debian unstable and a Samba server running on a Debian stable [continued…]

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Qemu Networking

imported from wiki, 5 January 2006

NAT under Qemu

When using user-net Qemu behaves as if it was behind a firewall which blocks all incoming connections. You can use a DHCP client to automatically configure the network for the guest OS. Under QEMU 0.7.2 and below using the option

-user-net

or QEMU 0.8.0 and above (you don’t need to specify this any more because it’s actually the default)

-net nic -net user

or if you have no tun/tap init script, Qemu uses a completely user mode network stack (you don’t need root privileges to use the virtual network). The virtual network configuration is the following:

Qemu [continued...]
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