Common smb.conf Options
There are hundreds of Samba options. For complete documentation, view the smb.conf man page with this command:
$ man smb.conf
An understanding of a few options suffices for most tasks. A discussion of those options and conventions follows. Note that many options are followed by (G) or (S), meaning they are intended for the [global] section or a share section, respectively.
Special Conventions
Many options expecting users as the value can also take groups. In these cases the value is the group name preceded by an at sign. For instance, group acct can be represented as @acct. The @ specifies to look for the group first in NIS, then in the local machine. Pre pending & says interpret as a NIS group only, and prepending ...
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