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Samba Pocket Reference
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Samba Pocket Reference

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
80 pages
5h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Glossary of Configuration Values

Address list

A space-separated list of IP addresses in ###.###.###.### format.

Command

A Unix command, with a full path and parameters.

Comma-separated list

A list of items separated by commas.

Host list

A space-separated list of hosts. Allows IP addresses, address masks, domain names, ALL, and EXCEPT.

Interface list

A space-separated list of interfaces, in either address/netmask or address/n-bits format. For example, 192.168.2.10/24 or 192.168.2.10/255.255.255.0.

Map list

A space-separated list of file-remapping strings such as (*.html *.htm).

Remote list

A space-separated list of subnet-broadcast-address/workgroup pairs. For example:

192.168.2.255/SERVERS 192.168.4.255/STAFF
Service (share) list

A space-separated list of share names, without the enclosing square brackets.

Slash-list

A list of filenames, separated by “/” characters to allow embedded spaces. For example:

/.*/fred flintstone/*.frk/
Text

One line of text.

User list

A space-separated list of usernames. @group_name includes whomever is in the NIS netgroup group_name if one exists, or otherwise whomever is in the Unix group group_name. In addition, +group_name is a Unix group, &group_name is an NIS netgroup, and &+ and +& cause an ordered search of both Unix and NIS groups.

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