Using SambaRobert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly 1st
Edition November 1999 1-56592-449-5, Order Number: 4495 416
pages, $34.95 Learning the Samba Configuration File
Configuration File Options Disk Share Configuration Networking
Options with Samba Logging Configuration Options 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 Sam