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SMB Manual?
Authored by: Beorn on Aug 27, '02 09:45:01AM
Where exactly may I find the SMB manual? I keep seeing references to the smb.conf (5) manual pages, but I don't know where to start looking. I'm fairly new to the terminal, so I'm sure that's part of the problem...

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SMB Manual?
Authored by: rebug on Aug 28, '02 04:43:24PM
Type man smb.conf at your terminal prompt.

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SMB Manual?
Authored by: Beorn on Aug 29, '02 01:42:43AM
I had tried that before I posted, and all I got was No manual entry for smb.conf. I don't have the Developer Tools installed, so could that be part of the problem? I also did an "update" rather than a clean install, and I've heard of others that have had issues with the man command on updated systems. That's probably the problem. I'm going to be backing up and wiping the drive clean in a couple days here anyway, so I'll see if that fixes things... Thanks though!

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SMB Manual, more parameters
Authored by: JJ on Sep 17, '02 10:51:28AM

On a clean install (but without DevTools), I also get no manual page for smb.conf. I ssh'ed to a FreeBSD box for the manpages. All other man pages I've needed so far worked fine. Samba also works fine, I was able to add (and logon to) a new Share.

Maybe to give people some ideas for other useful parameters:

[utilities]
comment = Utilities on MacMind
path = /Volumes/MacMind/Utilities
available = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.0.
public = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
hide files = /.*/Icon?/Desktop?D?/
printable = no

The above lets you easily:
- turn a share off (available = no)
- switch guest access on (public = yes)
- make the share readonly (writable = no)
- hide files which are meaningless on Windows
- only allow certain hosts

Thanks for a great tip!



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