Antonio Vazquez is an IT professional who has been working with Linux for more than a decade. He studied computer engineering at university in Spain, and he currently holds many IT certifications from the main vendors in the industry. At present, he works for a public institution and is in charge of almost a thousand Linux servers spread across the country, providing web services, FTP services, file services, virtualization, and more. He is also the author of Learn CentOS Linux Network Services (Apress, 2016).

Complete preparation for the LPIC-3 300 certification - the highest level professional Linux certification

Provides the reader with all the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle the LPIC-3 300 certification, and to install, manage and troubleshoot OpenLDAP, Samba, and FreeIPA

No prior knowledge of OpenLDAP, Samba, and FreeIPA is required

Part I. OpenLAP.- 1. Starting with OpenLDAP.- 2. Securing the Directory.- 3. LDAP Integration with PAM and NSS.- 4. Integrating LDAP with Active Directory and Kerberos.- 5. OpenLDAP Replication.- 6. OpenLDAP Server Performance Tuning.- Part II. Samba.- 7. Starting with Samba.- 8. Samba Concepts and Architecture. Configuring Samba. Internationalization.- 9. Regular Samba Maintenance and Troubleshooting.- 10. File Services in Samba.- 11. Linux File System and Share/Service Permissions.- 12. Print Services.- 13. Managing User Accounts and Groups.- 14. Authentication, Authorization and Winbind.- 15. Samba as a PDC and BDC.- 16. Configuring Samba as a Domain Member Server in an Existing NT Domain.- 17. Samba 4 as an AD Compatible Domain Controller.- 18. Configure Samba as a Domain Member Server in an Existing AD Domain.- 19. NetBIOS and WINS.- 20. Active Directory Name Resolution.- 21. CIFS Integration.- 22. Working with Windows Clients.- Part III. FreeIPA.- 23. Starting with FreeIPA.- 24. FreeIPA Replication. Adding Clients to the Domain.- 25. FreeIPA Entity Management.- 26. FreeIPA AD Integration.- 27. Network File System.