February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Rolling Your Own
When making manual changes to the Samba configuration file, take care to block changes initiated from graphical applications by invoking this command:
# chflags uchg /etc/smb.confFrom that point on, the GUI will be useful only for starting, stopping, and monitoring the service—not for configuring it.
If you install your own version of Samba, you can still manage it
from Server Settings by changing some of the Open Directory
properties in /config/SMBServer.
To do this, open NetInfo Manager and modify the
samba_sbindir and samba_bindir
properties to match the location of your Samba installation.
Optionally, you can modify samba_libdir,
samba_vardir, and
samba_lockdir. Assuming a default Samba
installation, you can also change these at the command line with the
following commands:
#nicl . -create /config/SMBServer samba_sbindir /usr/local/samba/bin#nicl . -create /config/SMBServer samba_bindir /usr/local/samba/bin#nicl . -create /config/SMBServer samba_libdir /usr/local/samba/lib#nicl . -create /config/SMBServer samba_vardir /usr/local/samba/var#nicl . -create /config/SMBServer samba_lockdir /usr/local/samba/var/locks
You can check your settings with this command:
# nicl . -read /config/SMBServerIn Server Settings, select Stop Windows Services, then run this command:
# killall sambadmindThe watchdog utility restarts sambadmind within seconds. Finally, go back to Server Settings, and select Start Windows Services.
If you don’t modify Open Directory properties to match ...
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