November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
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Chapter 4. Disk Shares
In the previous three chapters, we showed you how to install Samba on a Unix server and set up Windows clients to use a simple disk share. This chapter will show you how Samba can assume more productive roles on your network.
Samba’s daemons, smbd
and nmbd
, are controlled through a single ASCII file, smb.conf, that can contain over 200 unique options. These options define how Samba reacts to the network around it, including everything from simple permissions to encrypted connections and NT domains. The next five chapters are designed to help you get familiar with this file and its options. Some of these options you will use and change frequently; others you may never use—it all depends on how much functionality you want Samba to offer its clients.
This chapter introduces the structure of the Samba configuration file and shows you how to use these options to create and modify disk shares. Subsequent chapters will discuss browsing, how to configure users, security, domains, and printers, and a host of other myriad topics that you can implement with Samba on your network.
Learning the Samba Configuration File
Here is an
example of a Samba configuration file. If you have worked with a Windows .INI file, the structure of the smb.conf file should look very familiar:
[global] log level = 1 max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY guest ok = no [homes] browseable = no map archive = yes [printers] path = /usr/tmp guest ok = yes printable = ...
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