Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems for many years. Samba is a software package that gives network administrators flexibility and freedom in terms of setup, configuration, and choice of systems and equipment. Because of all that it offers, Samba has grown in popularity, and continues to do so, every year since its release in 1992. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Topics covered:

• Local-Subnet Browsing.
• Cross-Subnet Browsing.
• Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS).
• Optimizing Samba Performance.
• LDAP (Installing and configuring OpenLDAP, LDAP Account Manager (LAM), the Idealx LDAP Integration scripts)
• Samba-3 ADS Domain membership

At this Samba workshop, you will get the opportunitiy to influence on the topics covered. That will be discussed at the workshop to reflect on the needs of the participans. Possible topics can be: Samba as a PDC/BDC with the help of LDAP, Samba as a printserver with or without CUPS, Samba as a Member of an ADS-Networks, perfomance-tuning, enhancing Samba with VFS. Only to mention a few.

Part of the training time will be made available for group discussion of problems you will bring to the workshop. Do your homework! Come prepared with detailed written overviews of real-world problems you need to have solved.

Spend two days with highly skilled expert Jens Kühnel, his certificates are: RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect) SuSE Certified Linux Trainer (SCLT) for all subareas since 1998 Special permit for the SCLT training in the company SuSE, Nürnberg RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) since December 1999 RedHat eXaminer (RHCX) since December 1999 Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 1 since November 2001 Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) NT4 since August 1999 and Windows 2000 since November 2001 Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since August 1999

 

First Samba 3.0 Advanced Training Course was held in Ljubljana from May 24th to 25th, 2004. A group of 10 trainees came from several Slovenian and Croatian companies. There were all Samba users and were having high course expectations.

Grades from an anonymus survey are from 1 to 5 where 1 means worst and 5 the best opinion:

Trainer: 4,71
Trainers skills: 4,71
Training course comprehension: 4,57
Explanation and help: 4,86
Overall athmosphere in class: 4,71
The applicability of the training material: 4,33

All of the participants meet their expectation and have comon opinion that this course should listen everyone who is a Samba user and it was extremely useful class.

Since then, we held 4 Samba trainings in Slovenia so far!

 

Duration: 2 days, from 8:30 AM till 5:0 PM
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia, map

Price: 1050 EUR + VAT

To enroll please write to trzenje@housing.si

Trainer

Listen and learn from an expert on Samba 3.4.5. (current stable, production Samba server), author of many books, IT professional with many years of experiences on Linux and owner of all known Linux certifications, Mr. Jens Kühnel.

Location

Training will be held at Red Hat Business and training partner Housing Co. d.o.o. in the capital city of Slovenia, Ljubljana.

Goal

Course is designed to train people to emphasize their knowledge on Samba to higher, expert level.

Audience

Samba 3.4.5. Advanced Training is aimed at senior Linux users who already have experience with Samba and other IT professionals who need to provide a quality and reliable enterprise solutions based on Samba 3.4.5.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge is a working familiarity with Samba 3 and competence with the configuration of MS Windows client configuration.