November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
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Miscellaneous Options
Many Samba options are present to deal with operating system issues on either Unix or Windows. The options shown in Table 8.10 deal specifically with some of these known problems. We usually don’t change these and we recommend the same to you.
Table 8-10. Miscellaneous Options
|
Option |
Parameters |
Function |
Default |
Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
numerical (number of minutes) |
Specifies the number of minutes of inactivity before a connection should be terminated. |
|
Global |
|
|
string (command) |
Used to provide a command that returns disk free space in a format recognized by Samba. |
None |
Global |
|
|
|
Sets the filesystem type reported by the server to the client. |
|
Global |
|
|
seconds |
Sets the number of seconds between checks for an inoperative client. |
(none) |
Global |
|
|
numerical (size in MB) |
Sets the largest disk size to return to a client, some of which have limits. Does not affect actual operations on the disk. |
(infinity) |
Global |
|
|
numerical |
Sets the maximum number of simultaneous SMB operations that clients may make. |
|
Global |
|
|
numerical |
Limits number of open files to be below Unix limits. |
|
Global |
|
|
numerical |
Specifies the maximum packet size that Samba will send. |
|
Global |
|
|
boolean |
Turns off an experimental NT feature, for benchmarking or in case of an error. |
|
Global |
|
|
boolean ... |
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