LPIC-3 Mixed Environment case studies
LPIC-3 Mixed Environment · Put your knowledge to work in context.
LPIC-3 Mixed Environments is one of four LPIC-3 specialty certifications from the Linux Professional Institute. LPI describes LPIC-3 as the culmination of its multi-level programme and the highest level of professional, distribution-neutral Linux certification in the industry; passing any one of the four specialty exams grants the LPIC-3 certification for that specialty. The LPIC-3 Mixed Environment case studies are 5 cases and about 2,862 words.
1Empty Network Browse List After Disabling NetBIOS
A small accounting firm runs a standalone Samba 4.19 file server, fs01, on Debian 12. The smb.conf sets workgroup = OFFICE, security = user, passdb backend = tdbsam, disable netbios = yes, and server min protocol = SMB2 10.
561 words, about 3 min2Inconsistent UID/GID Mapping Across Two Samba Member Servers
CORP.EXAMPLE.COM is an Active Directory domain with Samba 4.20 AD DCs. Two member servers, app01 and app02, run Samba 4.20 with winbind and mount the same NFSv4 export from nas01.
557 words, about 3 min3Group Members Can Delete Each Other's Files
A Samba 4.20 member server hosts a share for an engineering team: [engineering] path = /srv/engineering , read only = no , valid users = @eng , force group = eng , create mask = 0660 , directory mask = 2770 , and inherit permissions = yes . /srv/engineering is on XFS, owned root:eng, mode 2770.
604 words, about 3 min4CIFS Mount Uses One Identity for All Logged-In Users
A lab of Ubuntu 22.04 workstations mounts a Samba share from files.corp.example at boot with this /etc/fstab entry: //files.corp.example/team /mnt/team cifs credentials=/etc/cifs.team,uid=1000,gid=1000,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,nofail 0 0 . The credentials file contains a service account, svc-team, and its password.
553 words, about 3 min5Samba and NFSv4 Disagree on AD User IDs
A media company stores project data on files01, a Samba 4.20 AD member server that also exports /srv/media over NFSv4 to Linux render nodes. Windows clients use Samba; Linux nodes mount files01:/srv/media.
587 words, about 3 min