February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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Server Configuration
We will now start from
scratch and build a configuration file for our Samba server. First we
will introduce three basic configuration options that can appear in
the [global] section of the
smb.conf file:
[global]
# Server configuration parameters
netbios name = toltec
server string = Samba %v on %L
workgroup = METRAN
encrypt passwords = yesThis configuration file is pretty simple; it advertises the Samba
server under the NetBIOS name toltec. In addition,
it places the system in the METRAN workgroup and displays a
description to clients that includes the Samba version number, as
well as the NetBIOS name of the Samba server.
Tip
If you used the line encrypt passwords = yes in
your earlier configuration file, you should do so here as well.
If you like, you can go ahead and try this configuration file. Create
a file named smb.conf under the
/usr/local/samba/lib directory with the text
listed earlier. Then restart the Samba server and use a Windows
client to verify the results. Be sure that your Windows clients are
in the METRAN workgroup as well. After double-clicking the Network
Neighborhood on a Windows client, you should see a window similar to
Figure 6-2. (In this figure,
Mixtec is another Samba server,
and Zapotec is a Windows
client.)
Figure 6-2. Network Neighborhood showing Toltec, the Samba server
You can verify the server
string by listing the details of the Network ...
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