General Samba MCQs

1. What does PDC stand for?

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

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

4. Which of the following is not a net groupmap command?

5. Which of the following is a Domain Controller Type?

6. True or False? Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain.

7. What is the Web-based interface that can be used to facilitate the configuration of Samba?

8. To improve Samba server performance on Linux an administrator can add the following option to smb.conf

9. Which of the following methods should be used to make changes to the smbpasswd file?

10. Is smbd a Samba Daemon?

11. Which of the following best describes the function of nmbd?

12. What is a Samba PDC?

13. A system administrator is preparing to take down the system for routine maintenance. The network is primarily used for Samba services. Before upgrading to the latest Linux kernel, the administrator wants to make sure there are no remaining connections. Which of the following programs can the administrator use to see the open connections?

14. Which of the following does SWAT provide for administrators maintaining a Samba server?

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

16. Parameter values in smb.conf file fall into which of these categories?

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

18. In the context of shared libraries (PAM) stands for?

19. Two daemons, smbd and nmbd, provide communication between Windows and Linux machines. Each daemon controls a portion of the work. Which of the following statements correctly match these daemons with the jobs they perform?

20. Pauline is the system administrator of a Local Area Network (LAN) that contains Linux and Windows clients. The LAN uses a file server that runs on a Windows NT server. In order to have fewer servers on the network, Pauline wants to place all Linux users' home directories on the Windows server. Can the Linux machines be configured so that this is possible Why or why not?

21. 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>"?

22. Which of the following Samba programs will listen for NetBIOS over IP name service requests?

23. In order for encrypted passwords to be available to Samba, which of the following lines should appear in smb.conf?

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

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

26. 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?

27. Phillipe, an administrator, would like to configure Samba as a domain client and has added the following lines to smb.conf. The domain client is not functioning properly. What is wrong with this section of his smb.conf file? security = domain netbios name = bigsamba domain name = mydomain machine password timeout = 100

28. When MS Windows machines interact with each other, with other servers, and with domain controllers as standalone systems, they are more commonly called:

29. An administrator has recently discovered many malicious attacks on a Samba server. The attacks originate from two rogue hosts (badhost1 and badhost2) in the NIS netgroup called "nisnet". Which of the following smb.conf entries will allow any host from nisnet to access the Samba server except badhost1 and badhost2?

30. 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

31. What command would be used to prevent a user named 'smitty' from logging in?

32. Annie is using Windows 95. In order for her to connect to the Samba server, she needs to run the regedit program and add an entry to the Windows registry. What type of registry entry should Annie add, and what should its value be?

33. Instead of linking all Samba commands to paths already defined in his environment, Fred wants to include /usr/local/samba/bin in his path. Which of the following will allow Fred to do this?

34. A username map is?

35. which is equivalent to: comment = this is not a comment

36. When setting up a new print share what piece of information is not needed?

37. All MS Windows networking uses ______ messaging.

38. Which of these are NOT advantages to non-encrypted passwords?

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

40. What is the function of the smbclient command?

41. Parameter names are case sensitive

42. The system administrator is trying to set up a smbpasswd file from the /etc/passwd file. The system is not using NIS. Which of the following is the proper command line to produce the smbpasswd file in the "/usr/local/samba/private/" directory?

43. Isabella has recently enabled SSL support on a large Samba server and has issued the command below. What did Isabella accomplish with this command? ssleay ca -days 100 -infiles client1-csr > client1.pem

44. After upgrading Samba to a newer version, older Windows 95, 98 or ME clients fail to access shares on Samba server. To fix this issue an administrator should add the following lines to the [global] section of smb.conf, then restart Samba and re-create user passwords.

45. Maynard is optimizing his Samba services to provide ease of use as well as security. He has added the line below to /etc/auto.misc. Which of the following best describes the purpose of this addition? docs -fstype=smb, username=bob, password=2ghtex9s ://servermain/docs

46. Which of the following authentication methods are valid options in smb.conf?

47. When dealing with client variables, which variable indicates the IP address of the interface on the server to which the client connected

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

49. An administrator has modified his smb.conf file with regards to the server's behavior during elections for preferred master browser. The two modified lines listed below cause which of the following to take place? preferred master = true domain master = yes

50. Palmer, an administrator working on a Linux/Windows NT network, has issued the command below. What is he doing? rpcclient -S '\\NTmachine' -U administrator -W NTDOM

51. If you were to configure your disk share options with both: read only = yes, and write ok = yes in that order what would happen?

52. When adding static entries to your Samba WINS server, entries in wins.dat take the form of:

53. Which of the following is FALSE regarding NetBIOS?

54. Dora, an administrator, would like to temporarily disable a share so she can change its contents. Which of the following should she add to smb.conf in the share's section to do this?

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

56. starting a sentence with # is the only way to add a single line comment in the smb.conf file

57. Pete wants to configure Samba to be a WINS server. Which of the following must he do in the smb.conf file for Samba to do this?

58. An administrator needs to define how files written to the server by users are handled. He has added the following lines to his smb.conf file in order to do this. Considering these lines, what will be the permissions on a file that a user sets to 555? security mask = 0777 force security mode = 0 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 0

59. Many smb.conf parameters take list arguments such as the hide files parameter. From the following, select the "hide files" parameter with the proper syntax that would prevent users from accessing files with .mbx extensions and files beginning with samba.

60. 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?

61. A Samba server is experiencing packet loss and data corruption when multiple users access a file simultaneously. Which of the following, if added to smb.conf, would most likely fix the problem?

62. 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