Using Samba, Second Edition

Miscellaneous Options

Many Samba options are available to deal with operating system issues on either Unix or Windows. In particular, some of these options are used for setting limits for clients’ use of resources on the Unix server. The options shown in Table 11-9 deal with some of these issues.

Table 11-9. Miscellaneous options

Option	Parameters	Function	Default	Scope
deadtime	numeric (minutes)	Number of minutes of inactivity before a connection should be terminated.	0	Global
dfree command	string (command)	Used to specify a command that returns free disk space in a format recognized by Samba.	None	Global
fstype	NTFS, FAT, or Samba	Filesystem type reported by the server to the client.	NTFS	Global
keepalive	numeric (seconds)	Number of seconds between checks for an inoperative client.	300 (none)	Global
max disk size	numeric (MB)	Largest disk size to return to a client, some of which have limits. Does not affect actual operations on the disk.	0 (infinity)	Global
max mux	numeric	Maximum number of simultaneous SMB operations that clients can make.	50	Global
max open files	numeric	Limits number of open files to be below Unix limits.	10000	Global
max xmit	numeric	Specifies the maximum packet size that Samba will send.	65535 or 16644	Global
nt pipe support	Boolean	Turns off an NT/2000/XP support feature; for benchmarking or in case of an error.	yes	Global
nt smb support	Boolean	Turns off an NT/2000/XP ...