General MCQ for Samba

1. Which of the following best describes the number of smbd processes that should be running at one time on a properly configured Samba server?

2. Which of the following best describes the function of smbd?

3. Is smbd a Samba Daemon?

4. What is a Samba PDC?

5. True or False? In share-level security, the client authenticates itself separately for each share.

6. Which of the following is a function of a WINS server?

7. Diego, an administrator, has set up a Samba server to provide Windows users access to their Linux home directories. In the [homes] share, which of the following should he use to define the path of the home directories as "/home/samba/<user name>"?

8. Hans wants to change his SMB password on the local system. Which of the following should he type to do this?

9. Liz wants to grant administrative access to three users. How should she edit the smb.conf file?

10. Ron, a Windows user on his local network, asked his co-worker Ned to save a fle on the file server (a Linux machine). Ned saves the file in the specified directory and sends Ron a message to tell him it is there. Ron looks in the file server share, but he cannot find the file until he checks it 20 minutes later. Why is Ron having this problem?

11. A system administrator has Samba running on a machine that has direct access to the Internet, as well as access to the local area network through two different network interfaces. As part of the configuration, the administrator adds the lines below to smb.conf. Which of the following describes the function of these two lines? interfaces = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 bind interfaces only = yes

12. Which of the following best describes the function of the global max xmit parameter in smb.conf?

13. What is the function of the smbclient command?

14. Which of the following does the "create mask" parameter allow Samba to do?

15. Which of the following is FALSE regarding NetBIOS?

16. Which of the following commands will be executed first by Samba?

17. Molly, an administrator, would like to poll the network to ensure that Samba is working properly. Which of the following commands would allow her to do this?

18. The Samba server (luke.linuxsite.org) using the smb.conf file below is experiencing problems. What is most likely wrong with the smb.conf file? [global] netbios name = luke workgroup = network1 security = share load printers = yes log file = /home/admin/ max log size = 10000 wins support = yes wins server = samba.linuxsite.org bind interfaces only = yes