Test Your Knowledge of Samba Topics

Emmett Dulaney

Samba is one of those technologies that you must know if you are working with integration today. Its importance is such that it is a focal point of the newly announced LPIC-3 certification from the Linux Professional Institute. Following are fifty questions on general aspects of Samba that anyone working with it at an advanced level should know. Good luck (answers are at the end of the article)!

Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the common Samba daemons?

A. globd
B. winbindd
C. smbd
D. nmbd

2. Which of the following commands can be used to see where the smb.conf file should be on the system?

A. smbd -a | grep smb.conf
B. smbd -b | grep smb.conf
C. smbd -c | grep smb.conf
D. smbd -d | grep smb.conf

3. Which of the following is a Web-based interface that can be used for configuring Samba?

A. SMBW
B. SNOW
C. SWAT
D. TESTPARM

4. Using Samba, you want to login to a Unix host named EVAN with a login name of Kristin. Which of the following commands should you use?

A. smbclient -l kristin EVAN
B. smbclient //EVAN/kristin
C. smbclient (EVAN) kristin
D. smbclient -h EVAN -n kristin

5. Which of the following commands can be used to see the shares available on the Samba server named SPENCER?

A. smbclient -L SPENCER
B. net show SPENCER
C. showall SPENCER
D.