: There are a wide variety of tools, utilities and scripts that are built to support the creation, debugging and administration of a Samba0 based domain. These tools have seen a great deal of rapid development, reflecting the needs of testing and deployment in a wide range of installations. Most of these tools are command line based, or loadable libraries to be used by third party tools and scripting languages. An interesting note is that, the easiest approach to GUI based management of the domain is through 