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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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