From the course: Linux System Engineer: Network Filesystems Using NFS and Samba
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Samba global configuration options - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux System Engineer: Network Filesystems Using NFS and Samba
Samba global configuration options
- [Instructor] The global options in the Samba configuration file control how Samba works, including how it identifies itself and which mode it runs in, network-related options including the workgroup name, server string, and netbios name. We can also set the network interfaces to provide services on. This is useful when we have multiple network interfaces in our host and we only want to serve files on one of them. We can also decide which host to provide services to using the host allow and host deny option. Samba provides log options that allow us to define the log file and the maximum log size. We can use variables in many options to ease configuration. For instance, we can even have logs created dynamically for each client system by specifying log file equals percent m dot log, or one log per share by specifying log file equals percent capital S dot log. Samba provides different security modes to run in. Security equals ads uses Kerberos to authenticate Active Directory users…
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