1<html> 2<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 3 4<img src="samba2_xs.gif" border="0" alt=" " height="100" width="76" 5hspace="10" align="left" /> 6 7<h1 class="head0">Appendix B. Samba Configuration Option Quick Reference</h1> 8 9 10<p>The first section of this appendix lists each option that can be used 11in a Samba configuration file, which is usually named 12<em class="filename">smb.conf</em>. Most configuration files contain a 13global section of options that apply to all services (shares) and a 14separate section for various individual shares. If an option applies 15only to the global section, <tt class="literal">[global]</tt> appears to 16the right of its name in the following reference section.</p> 17 18<p>Except where noted, when specifying elements of a list, the elements 19can be separated by spaces, tabs, commas, semicolons, escaped 20newlines, or escaped carriage returns.</p> 21 22<p>Following this reference section is a glossary of value types, and a 23list of variables Samba recognizes.</p> 24 25 26 27<div class="sect1"><a name="samba2-APP-B-SECT-1"/> 28 29<h2 class="head1">Configuration File Options</h2> 30 31</div> 32 33 34<a name="INDEX-1"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>abort shutdown script = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 35</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that stops the shutdown procedure started by 36<tt class="literal">shutdown script</tt>. The command will be run with the 37UID of the connected user. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 38<a name="INDEX-2"/><a name="INDEX-3"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>add printer command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 39</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that creates a new 40<a name="INDEX-3"/>printer on the system hosting the Samba 41server. This command runs as <tt class="literal">root</tt> when the Windows 42NT/2000/XP Add Printer Wizard is run. The command will be passed a 43printer name, share name, port name, driver name, Windows NT/2000/XP 44driver location, and Windows 95/98/Me driver location, in that order. 45It will need to add the printer to the system and a share definition 46for the printer to <em class="filename">smb.conf.</em> See also 47<tt class="literal">add printer wizard</tt>, <tt class="literal">printing</tt>, 48and <tt class="literal">show add printer wizard</tt>.</p></div> 49<a name="INDEX-4"/><a name="INDEX-5"/><a name="INDEX-6"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>add machine script = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 50</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that adds a computer to the Samba 51server's <a name="INDEX-5"/><a name="INDEX-6"/>domain. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 52<a name="INDEX-7"/><a name="INDEX-8"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>add share command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 53</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that creates a new 54<a name="INDEX-8"/>share on the Samba server. This command 55runs as <tt class="literal">root</tt> when a share is created using the 56Windows NT/2000/XP Server Manager. The client user must be logged on 57as the <tt class="literal">root</tt> user. The command will be passed the 58name of the Samba configuration file, the name of the share to be 59created, the full pathname of a directory on the Samba server (which 60must already exist), and a string to use as a comment for the share, 61in that order. The command must add a share definition for the share 62to <em class="filename">smb.conf.</em> See also <tt class="literal">add printer 63command</tt>, for adding a print share.</p></div> 64<a name="INDEX-9"/><a name="INDEX-10"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>add user script = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 65</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that creates a new 66<a name="INDEX-10"/>user on the system hosting the Samba 67server. This command runs as <tt class="literal">root</tt> when access to a 68Samba share is attempted by a Windows user who does not have an 69account on the hosting system, but does have an account maintained by 70a primary domain controller on a different system. The command should 71accept the name of the user as a single argument that matches the 72behavior of typical <em class="emphasis">adduser</em> commands. Samba 73honors the <tt class="literal">%u</tt> value (username) as the argument to 74the command. Requires <tt class="literal">security</tt> 75<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">server</tt> or 76<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 77<tt class="literal">domain</tt>. See also <tt class="literal">delete user</tt> 78<tt class="literal">script</tt>.</p></div> 79<a name="INDEX-11"/><a name="INDEX-12"/><a name="INDEX-13"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>admin users = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p><a name="INDEX-12"/>Specifies users who will be granted 80<a name="INDEX-13"/><tt class="literal">root</tt> 81permissions on the share by Samba.</p></div> 82<a name="INDEX-14"/><a name="INDEX-15"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ads server = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 83</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: DNS hostname or IP address</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Specifies the <a name="INDEX-15"/>Active Directory server, used by 84Samba 3.0 for authenticating clients. Requires 85<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">= ads</tt>. New in Samba 863.0.</p></div> 87<a name="INDEX-16"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>algorithmic rid base = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 88</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 1000</p><p>Specifies the base value that Samba uses when calculating Windows 89domain security identifier equivalents to Unix UIDs. See also 90<tt class="literal">non unix account range</tt>. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 91<a name="INDEX-17"/><a name="INDEX-18"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>allow hosts = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies systems that can connect to the share or 92<a name="INDEX-18"/>shares. If NULL, any 93system can access the share unless there is a <tt class="literal">hosts 94deny</tt> option. Synonym for <tt class="literal">hosts</tt> 95<tt class="literal">allow</tt>.</p></div> 96<a name="INDEX-19"/><a name="INDEX-20"/><a name="INDEX-21"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>allow trusted domains = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 97</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows access to users who lack accounts on the Samba server but have 98accounts in another, trusted <a name="INDEX-20"/><a name="INDEX-21"/>domain. 99Requires <tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">= server</tt> or 100<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 101<tt class="literal">domain</tt>.</p></div> 102<a name="INDEX-22"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>announce as = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 103</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NT, Win95, Wf W</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NT</p><p>Has Samba announce itself as something other than an NT server. 104Discouraged because it interferes with serving browse lists.</p></div> 105<a name="INDEX-23"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>announce version = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 106</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: two numbers separated by a dot character</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 4.5</p><p>Instructs Samba to announce itself as a different version SMB server. 107Discouraged.</p></div> 108<a name="INDEX-24"/><a name="INDEX-25"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>auth methods = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 109</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: guest, sam, ntdomain</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Specifies what methods Samba tries in turn to 110<a name="INDEX-25"/>authenticate users. New in Samba 1113.0.</p></div> 112<a name="INDEX-26"/><a name="INDEX-27"/><a name="INDEX-28"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>auto services = service list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 113</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: service list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of <a name="INDEX-27"/><a name="INDEX-28"/>shares that always appear in 114browse lists. Also called <tt class="literal">preload</tt>.</p></div> 115<a name="INDEX-29"/><a name="INDEX-30"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>available = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to NO, denies access to a share. The 116<a name="INDEX-30"/>share appears in the browse list, but 117attempts to access it will fail.</p></div> 118<a name="INDEX-31"/><a name="INDEX-32"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>bind interfaces only = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 119</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, shares and browsing are provided only on interfaces in 120an <a name="INDEX-32"/>interfaces list (see 121<tt class="literal">interfaces</tt>). If you set this option to YES, be 122sure to add 127.0.0.1 to the interfaces list to allow 123<em class="emphasis">smbpasswd</em> to connect to the local system to 124change passwords. This is a convenience option; it does not improve 125security.</p></div> 126<a name="INDEX-33"/><a name="INDEX-34"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>block size = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 1024</p><p>Sets the size of disk blocks as reported by <em class="emphasis">smbd</em> 127to the client. <a name="INDEX-34"/>Obsolete 128starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 129<a name="INDEX-35"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>blocking locks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, honors byte range lock requests with time limits. Samba will 130queue the requests and retry them until the time period expires.</p></div> 131<a name="INDEX-36"/><a name="INDEX-37"/><a name="INDEX-38"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>browsable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p><a name="INDEX-37"/><a name="INDEX-38"/>Allows a share to be announced 132in browse lists. Also called <tt class="literal">browseable</tt>.</p></div> 133<a name="INDEX-39"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>browse list = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 134</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, serves the browse list to other systems on the network. Avoid 135changing.</p></div> 136<a name="INDEX-40"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>browseable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">browsable</tt>.</p></div> 137<a name="INDEX-41"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>case sensitive = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 138</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, uses the exact case the client supplied when trying to 139resolve a filename. If NO, matches either upper- or lowercase name. 140Avoid changing. Also called <tt class="literal">casesignames</tt>.</p></div> 141<a name="INDEX-42"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>casesignames = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 142</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">case</tt> <tt class="literal">sensitive</tt>.</p></div> 143<a name="INDEX-43"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>change notify timeout = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 144</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 60</p><p>Sets the number of seconds between checks when a client asks for 145notification of changes in a directory. Avoid lowering.</p></div> 146<a name="INDEX-44"/><a name="INDEX-45"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>change share command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 147</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that modifies a 148<a name="INDEX-45"/>share 149definition on the Samba server. This command runs as 150<tt class="literal">root</tt> when a share is created using the Windows 151NT/2000/XP Server Manager. The client user must be logged on as the 152<tt class="literal">root</tt> user. The command is passed the name of the 153Samba configuration file, the name of the share to be modified, the 154full pathname of a directory on the Samba server (which must already 155exist), and a string to use as a comment for the share, in that 156order. The command modifies the share definition for the share in 157<em class="filename">smb.conf.</em> See also <tt class="literal">add share 158command</tt> and <tt class="literal">delete share command</tt>.</p></div> 159<a name="INDEX-46"/><a name="INDEX-47"/><a name="INDEX-48"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>character set = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-5, KOI8-R</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p><a name="INDEX-47"/>If set, translates from DOS code 160pages to the Western European (ISO8859-1), Eastern European 161(ISO8859-2), Russian Cyrillic (ISO8859-5), or Alternate Russian 162(KOI8-R) character set. The <tt class="literal">client</tt> 163<tt class="literal">code</tt> <tt class="literal">page</tt> option must be set to 164850. <a name="INDEX-48"/>Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 165<a name="INDEX-49"/><a name="INDEX-50"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>client code page = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: see <a href="ch11.html#samba2-CHP-11-TABLE-4">Table 11-4</a> in <a href="ch11.html">Chapter 11</a></p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 850 (MS-DOS Latin 1)</p><p>Sets the DOS code page explicitly, overriding any previous 166<tt class="literal">valid</tt> <tt class="literal">chars</tt> settings. Examples 167of values are 850 for Western European, 437 for the U.S. standard, 168and 932 for Japanese Shift-JIS. <a name="INDEX-50"/>Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 169<a name="INDEX-51"/><a name="INDEX-52"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>code page directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 170</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full directory name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/samba/lib/codepages</em></p><p>Specifies the directory that stores code pages. 171<a name="INDEX-52"/>Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 172<a name="INDEX-53"/><a name="INDEX-54"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>coding system = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 173</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: euc, cap, hex, hexN, sjis, j8bb, j8bj, jis8, j8bh, 174j8@b, j8@j,j8@h, j7bb, j7bj, jis7, j7bh, j7@b, j7@j, j7@h, jubb, 175jubj, junet, jubh, ju@b, ju@j, ju@h</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the coding system used, notably for Kanji. This is employed for 176filenames and should correspond to the code page in use. The 177<tt class="literal">client</tt> <tt class="literal">code</tt> 178<tt class="literal">page</tt> option must be set to 932 ( Japanese 179Shift-JIS). <a name="INDEX-54"/>Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 180<a name="INDEX-55"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>comment = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: string</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the comment corresponding to a share. The comment appears in 181places such as a <em class="emphasis">net view</em> listing or through the 182Network Neighborhood. See also the <tt class="literal">server</tt> 183<tt class="literal">string</tt> configuration option.</p></div> 184<a name="INDEX-56"/><a name="INDEX-57"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>config file = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 185</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: \filename</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Selects a new Samba <a name="INDEX-57"/>configuration file to read instead of the 186current one. Used to relocate the configuration file or used with 187<tt class="literal">%</tt> variables to select custom configuration files 188for some users or systems.</p></div> 189<a name="INDEX-58"/><a name="INDEX-59"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>copy = section name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: existing section's name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Copies the configuration of an already defined share into the 190<a name="INDEX-59"/>share in which this option 191appears. Used with <tt class="literal">%</tt> variables to select custom 192configurations for systems, architectures, and users. Each option 193specified or copied takes precedence over earlier specifications of 194the option.</p></div> 195<a name="INDEX-60"/><a name="INDEX-61"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>create mask = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0744</p><p>Sets the maximum allowable <a name="INDEX-61"/>permissions for new files (e.g., 1960755). See also <tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>. 197To require certain permissions to be set, see 198<tt class="literal">force</tt> <tt class="literal">create</tt> 199<tt class="literal">mask</tt> and <tt class="literal">force</tt> 200<tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>. Also called 201<tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mode</tt>.</p></div> 202<a name="INDEX-62"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>create mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0744</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>.</p></div> 203<a name="INDEX-63"/><a name="INDEX-64"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>csc policy = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: manual, documents, programs, or disable</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: manual</p><p>Sets the client-side <a name="INDEX-64"/>caching policy, telling them how to 204cache files offline if they are capable of doing so.</p></div> 205<a name="INDEX-65"/><a name="INDEX-66"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>deadtime = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 206</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Specifies the time in minutes before an unused 207<a name="INDEX-66"/>connection will be 208terminated. Zero means never. Used to keep clients from tying up 209server resources for long periods of time. If used, clients must 210autoreconnect after the specified period of inactivity. See also 211<tt class="literal">keepalive</tt>.</p></div> 212<a name="INDEX-67"/><a name="INDEX-68"/><a name="INDEX-69"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>debug hires timestamp = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 213</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Changes the <a name="INDEX-68"/><a name="INDEX-69"/>timestamps in log entries from seconds 214to microseconds. Useful for measuring performance.</p></div> 215<a name="INDEX-70"/><a name="INDEX-71"/><a name="INDEX-72"/><a name="INDEX-73"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>debug pid = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 216</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Adds the process ID of the Samba server to <a name="INDEX-71"/><a name="INDEX-72"/><a name="INDEX-73"/>log lines, making it easier to 217debug a particular server. Requires debug <tt class="literal">timestamp = 218yes</tt> to work.</p></div> 219<a name="INDEX-74"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>debug timestamp = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 220</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Timestamps all log messages. Can be turned off when 221it's not useful (e.g., in debugging ). Also called 222<tt class="literal">timestamp</tt> <tt class="literal">logs</tt>.</p></div> 223<a name="INDEX-75"/><a name="INDEX-76"/><a name="INDEX-77"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>debug uid = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 224</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p><a name="INDEX-76"/><a name="INDEX-77"/>Adds the real and effective 225user ID and group ID of the user being served to the logs, making it 226easier to debug one particular user.</p></div> 227<a name="INDEX-78"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>debuglevel = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 228</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Sets the logging level used. Values of 3 or more slow Samba 229noticeably. Also called <tt class="literal">log</tt> 230<tt class="literal">level</tt>. Recommended value is 1.</p></div> 231<a name="INDEX-79"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>default = service name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 232</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: share name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies the name of a service (share) to provide if someone 233requests a service he doesn't have permission to use 234or that doesn't exist. The path is set from the name 235the client specified, with any underscore ( _ ) characters changed to 236slash ( / ) characters, allowing access to any directory on the Samba 237server. Use is discouraged. See also <tt class="literal">load 238printers</tt>. Also called <tt class="literal">default service</tt>.</p></div> 239<a name="INDEX-80"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>default case = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: LOWER, UPPER</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: LOWER</p><p>Sets the case in which to store new filenames. LOWER indicates 240lowercase, and UPPER indicates uppercase.</p></div> 241<a name="INDEX-81"/><a name="INDEX-82"/><a name="INDEX-83"/><a name="INDEX-84"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>default devmode = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Used with printer shares being accessed by Windows NT/2000/XP clients 242to set a default device mode for the 243<a name="INDEX-82"/><a name="INDEX-83"/><a name="INDEX-84"/>printer. Can be 244problematic. Use with care.</p></div> 245<a name="INDEX-85"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>default service = share name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 246</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: share name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">default</tt>.</p></div> 247<a name="INDEX-86"/><a name="INDEX-87"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>delete printer command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 248</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that removes a 249<a name="INDEX-87"/>printer from the system hosting the 250Samba server and deletes its service definition from 251<em class="filename">smb.conf</em>. The command is passed a printer name 252as its only argument. See also <tt class="literal">add printer 253command</tt>, <tt class="literal">printing</tt>, and <tt class="literal">show add 254printer wizard</tt>.</p></div> 255<a name="INDEX-88"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>delete readonly = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NO, YES</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, allows delete requests to remove read-only files. This 256is not allowed in MS-DOS/Windows, but it is normal in Unix, which has 257separate directory permissions. Used with programs such as RCS.</p></div> 258<a name="INDEX-89"/><a name="INDEX-90"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>delete share command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command that deletes a 259<a name="INDEX-90"/>share 260from the Samba server. The command runs when a user logged in as the 261<tt class="literal">root</tt> user on a Windows NT/2000/XP system deletes a 262share using Server Manager. The command is passed the name of the 263Samba configuration file and the name of the share to be deleted. The 264command must remove the definition of the share from the 265configuration file. See also <tt class="literal">add share command</tt> and 266<tt class="literal">change share command</tt>.</p></div> 267<a name="INDEX-91"/><a name="INDEX-92"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>delete user script = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 268</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to script</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the command to run as <tt class="literal">root</tt> when a user 269connects who no longer has an account on the 270domain's PDC. Honors <tt class="literal">%u</tt>. Can be 271used to delete the 272<a name="INDEX-92"/>user account automatically from 273the Samba server's host. Requires 274<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 275<tt class="literal">domain</tt> or <tt class="literal">security = user</tt>. Use 276with caution. See also <tt class="literal">add user script</tt>.</p></div> 277<a name="INDEX-93"/><a name="INDEX-94"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>delete veto files = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NO, YES</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, allows delete requests for a 278<a name="INDEX-94"/>directory containing 279files or subdirectories the user can't see due to 280the <tt class="literal">veto</tt> <tt class="literal">files</tt> option. If set 281to NO, the directory is not deleted and still contains invisible 282files.</p></div> 283<a name="INDEX-95"/><a name="INDEX-96"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>deny hosts = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of systems from which to refuse 284<a name="INDEX-96"/>connections. 285Also called <tt class="literal">hosts</tt> <tt class="literal">deny</tt>.</p></div> 286<a name="INDEX-97"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dfree command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 287</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Specifies a command to run on the server to return free disk space. 288Not needed unless the Samba host system's 289<em class="emphasis">dfree</em> command does not work properly.</p></div> 290<a name="INDEX-98"/><a name="INDEX-99"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: Unix directory name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the path to the 291<a name="INDEX-99"/>directory provided by a file share or 292used by a printer share. If the option is omitted in the 293<tt class="literal">[homes]</tt> share, it is set automatically to the 294user's home directory; otherwise, it defaults 295to<em class="filename"> /tmp</em>. For a printer share, the directory is 296used to spool printer files. Honors the <tt class="literal">%u</tt> (user) 297and <tt class="literal">%m</tt> (machine) variables. Synonym for 298<tt class="literal">path</tt>.</p></div> 299<a name="INDEX-100"/><a name="INDEX-101"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>directory mask = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0755</p><p>Sets the maximum allowable permissions for newly created 300<a name="INDEX-101"/>directories. To require 301that certain permissions be set, see the <tt class="literal">force</tt> 302<tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt> and 303<tt class="literal">force</tt> <tt class="literal">directory</tt> 304<tt class="literal">mask</tt> options. Also called 305<tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mode</tt>.</p></div> 306<a name="INDEX-102"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>directory mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0755</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>.</p></div> 307<a name="INDEX-103"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>directory security mask = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: same as <tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mode</tt></p><p>Controls which permission bits can be changed if a user edits the 308Unix permissions of directories on the Samba server from a Windows 309system. Any bit that is set in the mask can be changed by the user; 310any bit that is clear remains the same on the directory even if the 311user tries to change it. Requires <tt class="literal">nt</tt> 312<tt class="literal">acl</tt> <tt class="literal">support</tt> 313<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">YES</tt>.</p></div> 314<a name="INDEX-104"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>disable spools = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 315</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, Windows NT/2000/XP systems will downgrade to 316Lanman-style printing. Prevents printer driver uploading and 317downloading from working. Use with care. See also <tt class="literal">use client 318driver</tt>.</p></div> 319<a name="INDEX-105"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dns proxy = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 320</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES and if <tt class="literal">wins</tt> 321<tt class="literal">server</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 322<tt class="literal">YES</tt>, looks up hostnames in DNS when they are not 323found using WINS.</p></div> 324<a name="INDEX-106"/><a name="INDEX-107"/><a name="INDEX-108"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>domain admin group = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 325</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: usernames and/or group names</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies users who are in the <a name="INDEX-107"/>Domain Admins group and have 326<a name="INDEX-108"/>domain 327administrator authority when Samba is the PDC. See also 328<tt class="literal">domain guest group</tt> and <tt class="literal">domain 329logons</tt>. Useful in Samba 2.2 only. Obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 330<a name="INDEX-109"/><a name="INDEX-110"/><a name="INDEX-111"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>domain guest group = user/group list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 331</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of usernames and/or group names</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies users who are in the <a name="INDEX-110"/>Domain Guest group when Samba is the PDC. 332See also <tt class="literal">domain admin group</tt> and <tt class="literal">domain 333logons</tt>. Useful in Samba 2.2 only. <a name="INDEX-111"/>Obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 334<a name="INDEX-112"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>domain logons = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 335</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Causes Samba to serve domain logons. This is one of the basic 336functions required when Samba is acting as the PDC.</p></div> 337<a name="INDEX-113"/><a name="INDEX-114"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>domain master = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 338</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: automatic</p><p>Makes Samba a <a name="INDEX-114"/>domain master browser for its domain. When 339domain logons are enabled, <tt class="literal">domain master</tt> defaults 340to YES. Otherwise, it defaults to NO.</p></div> 341<a name="INDEX-115"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dont descend = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of directories</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Prohibits a change directory or search in the directories specified. 342This is a browsing-convenience option; it doesn't 343provide any extra security.</p></div> 344<a name="INDEX-116"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dos filemode = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Allows anyone with write permissions to change permissions on a file, 345as allowed by MS-DOS.</p></div> 346<a name="INDEX-117"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dos filetime resolution = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Sets file times on Unix to match MS-DOS standards (rounding to the 347next even second). Recommended if using Visual C++ or a PC 348<em class="emphasis">make</em> program to avoid remaking the programs 349unnecessarily. Use with the <tt class="literal">dos</tt> 350<tt class="literal">filetimes</tt> option.</p></div> 351<a name="INDEX-118"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>dos filetimes = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Allows nonowners to change file times if they can write to the files, 352matching the behavior of MS-DOS and Windows. See also 353<tt class="literal">dos</tt> <tt class="literal">filetime</tt> 354<tt class="literal">resolution</tt>.</p></div> 355<a name="INDEX-119"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>encrypt passwords = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 356</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO in Samba 2.2, YES in Samba 3.0</p><p>If enabled, Samba will use password encryption. Requires an 357<em class="filename">smbpasswd</em> file on the Samba server.</p></div> 358<a name="INDEX-120"/><a name="INDEX-121"/><a name="INDEX-122"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>enhanced browsing = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 359</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Automatically synchronizes <a name="INDEX-121"/><a name="INDEX-122"/>browse lists with all domain master 360browsers known to the WINS server. Makes cross-subnet browsing more 361reliable, but also can cause empty workgroups to persist forever in 362browse lists.</p></div> 363<a name="INDEX-123"/><a name="INDEX-124"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>enumports command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 364</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Allows for a command to provide clients with customized 365MS-DOS/Windows <a name="INDEX-124"/>port names (e.g., PRN:) corresponding 366to printers. Samba's default behavior is to return 367<tt class="literal">Samba Printer Port</tt>. The command must return a 368series of lines, with one port name per line.</p></div> 369<a name="INDEX-125"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>exec = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a command to run as the user before connecting to the share. 370Synonym for <tt class="literal">preexec</tt>. See also the 371<tt class="literal">postexec</tt>, <tt class="literal">root</tt> 372<tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, and <tt class="literal">root postexec</tt> 373options.</p></div> 374<a name="INDEX-126"/><a name="INDEX-127"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>fake directory create times = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>A bug fix for users of Microsoft 375<em class="emphasis">nmake</em><a name="INDEX-127"/>. If YES, Samba sets directory create 376times such that <em class="emphasis">nmake</em> won't 377remake all files every time.</p></div> 378<a name="INDEX-128"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>fake oplocks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, returns YES whenever a client asks if it can lock a file and 379cache it locally but does not enforce the lock on the server. Results 380in performance improvement for read-only shares. <em class="emphasis">Never use 381with read/write shares!</em> See also 382<tt class="literal">oplocks</tt> and <tt class="literal">veto</tt> 383<tt class="literal">oplock</tt> <tt class="literal">files</tt>.</p></div> 384<a name="INDEX-129"/><a name="INDEX-130"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>follow symlinks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES, Samba follows <a name="INDEX-130"/>symlinks in a file share(s). See the 385<tt class="literal">wide</tt> <tt class="literal">links</tt> option if you want 386to restrict symlinks to just the current share.</p></div> 387<a name="INDEX-131"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force create mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Takes effect when a user on a Windows client creates a file that 388resides on the Samba server. This option ensures that bits set in 389this mask will always be set on the new file. Used with the 390<tt class="literal">create mask</tt> configuration option.</p></div> 391<a name="INDEX-132"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force directory mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Takes effect when a user on a Windows client creates a directory on 392the Samba server. This option ensures that bits set in the mask will 393be set on every newly created directory. Used with <tt class="literal">directory 394mask</tt>.</p></div> 395<a name="INDEX-133"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force directory security mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: same as <tt class="literal">force</tt> 396<tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mode</tt></p><p>Takes effect when a user on a Windows client edits the Unix 397permissions of a directory on the Samba server. This option ensures 398that bits set in this mask will be set on the directory. Requires 399<tt class="literal">nt</tt> <tt class="literal">acl</tt> 400<tt class="literal">support</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 401<tt class="literal">YES</tt>.</p></div> 402<a name="INDEX-134"/><a name="INDEX-135"/><a name="INDEX-136"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force group = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: a Unix group name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the effective group name assigned to all users accessing a 403share. Used to override a 404<a name="INDEX-135"/><a name="INDEX-136"/>user's 405normal group memberships.</p></div> 406<a name="INDEX-137"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force security mode = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: same as <tt class="literal">force</tt> <tt class="literal">create</tt> 407<tt class="literal">mode</tt></p><p>Takes effect when a user on a Windows client edits the Unix 408permissions of a file on the Samba server. This option ensures that 409bits set in the mask will always be set on the file. Requires 410<tt class="literal">nt</tt> <tt class="literal">acl</tt> 411<tt class="literal">support</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 412<tt class="literal">YES</tt>. See also <tt class="literal">force directory security 413mode</tt> for directories.</p></div> 414<a name="INDEX-138"/><a name="INDEX-139"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force unknown acl user = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>When set, unknown users or groups in Windows NT ACLs will be mapped 415to the user or group of the connected user. <a name="INDEX-139"/>Obsolete starting with Samba 4163.0.</p></div> 417<a name="INDEX-140"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>force user = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: a single username</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the effective username assigned to all users accessing a share. 418Discouraged.</p></div> 419<a name="INDEX-141"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>fstype = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NTFS, FAT, Samba</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NTFS</p><p>Sets the filesystem type reported to the client. Avoid changing.</p></div> 420<a name="INDEX-142"/><a name="INDEX-143"/><a name="INDEX-144"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>getwd cache = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 421</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Caches the current <a name="INDEX-143"/><a name="INDEX-144"/>directory for performance. 422Recommended with the <tt class="literal">wide</tt> <tt class="literal">links</tt> 423option.</p></div> 424<a name="INDEX-145"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>group = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: a Unix group name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">force</tt> <tt class="literal">group</tt>.</p></div> 425<a name="INDEX-146"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>guest account = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: a single username</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the name of the unprivileged Unix account to use for tasks such 426as printing and for accessing shares marked with 427<tt class="literal">guest</tt> <tt class="literal">ok</tt>. The default is 428specified at compile time and is usually set to 429<tt class="literal">nobody</tt>.</p></div> 430<a name="INDEX-147"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>guest ok = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, doesn't need passwords for this 431share. Used with <tt class="literal">security = share</tt>. Synonym for 432<tt class="literal">public</tt>.</p></div> 433<a name="INDEX-148"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>guest only = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Forces users of a share to log on as the guest account. Requires 434<tt class="literal">guest</tt> <tt class="literal">ok</tt> or 435<tt class="literal">public</tt> to be YES. Also called 436<tt class="literal">only</tt> <tt class="literal">guest</tt>.</p></div> 437<a name="INDEX-149"/><a name="INDEX-150"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hide dot files = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Treats files with names beginning with a dot as if they had the 438MS-DOS <a name="INDEX-150"/>hidden 439attribute set. The files are either not displayed on a Windows client 440or appear grayed-out, depending on the settings on the client.</p></div> 441<a name="INDEX-151"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hide files = slash-separated list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: patterns, separated by <tt class="literal">/</tt> 442characters</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of file or directory names on which to set the 443MS-DOS hidden attribute. Names can contain <tt class="literal">?</tt> or 444<tt class="literal">*</tt> pattern characters and <tt class="literal">%</tt> 445variables. See also <tt class="literal">hide</tt> <tt class="literal">dot</tt> 446<tt class="literal">files</tt> and <tt class="literal">veto</tt> 447<tt class="literal">files</tt>.</p></div> 448<a name="INDEX-152"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hide local users = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 449</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, hides Unix-specific dummy accounts 450(<tt class="literal">root</tt>, <tt class="literal">wheel</tt>, 451<tt class="literal">floppy</tt>, etc.) from clients.</p></div> 452<a name="INDEX-153"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hide unreadable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, hides all unreadable files.</p></div> 453<a name="INDEX-154"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>homedir map = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 454</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NIS map name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Used with <tt class="literal">nis</tt> <tt class="literal">homedir</tt> to locate 455a user's Unix home directory from Sun NIS (not 456NIS+).</p></div> 457<a name="INDEX-155"/><a name="INDEX-156"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>host msdfs = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 458</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p><a name="INDEX-156"/>If set to YES and Samba was 459configured with the <tt class="literal">--with-msdfs</tt> option, provides 460Microsoft Distributed filesystem (Dfs) service, allowing Dfs-capable 461clients to browse Dfs trees on the Samba server. See also 462<tt class="literal">msdfs root</tt>.</p></div> 463<a name="INDEX-157"/><a name="INDEX-158"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hosts allow = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of systems that can access the 464<a name="INDEX-158"/>share. If NULL, any system can access 465the share unless there is a <tt class="literal">hosts</tt> 466<tt class="literal">deny</tt> option. Synonym for <tt class="literal">allow</tt> 467<tt class="literal">hosts</tt>.</p></div> 468<a name="INDEX-159"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hosts deny = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of systems that cannot connect to the share. Synonym 469for <tt class="literal">deny</tt> <tt class="literal">hosts</tt>.</p></div> 470<a name="INDEX-160"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>hosts equiv = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 471</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies the path to a file of trusted systems from which 472passwordless logons are allowed. Strongly discouraged because Windows 473NT/2000/XP users can always override the username—the only 474security in this scheme.</p></div> 475<a name="INDEX-161"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>include = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Includes the named file in <em class="filename">smb.conf</em> at the line 476where it appears. This option accepts most variables, but not 477<tt class="literal">%u</tt> (user), <tt class="literal">%P</tt> (current 478share's <tt class="literal">root</tt> directory), or 479<tt class="literal">%S</tt> (current share's name) because 480they are not set at the time the file is read.</p></div> 481<a name="INDEX-162"/><a name="INDEX-163"/><a name="INDEX-164"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>inherit acls = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, files and subdirectories are created with the same 482<a name="INDEX-163"/>ACLs 483as their parent directories. Directories are given Unix permissions 484of 0777 (full permissions) ensuring that the ACL on the directory 485will govern the actual permissions given to clients. Requires 486<a name="INDEX-164"/>POSIX ACL 487support to be provided on the Samba host system.</p></div> 488<a name="INDEX-165"/><a name="INDEX-166"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>inherit permissions = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, files and subdirectories are created with the same 489<a name="INDEX-166"/>permissions as their parent 490directories. This allows Unix directory permissions to be propagated 491automatically to new files and subdirectories, especially in the 492<tt class="literal">[homes]</tt> share. This option overrides 493<tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>, 494<tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt>, 495<tt class="literal">force</tt> <tt class="literal">create</tt> 496<tt class="literal">mode</tt>, and <tt class="literal">force</tt> 497<tt class="literal">directory</tt> <tt class="literal">mode</tt>, but not 498<tt class="literal">map</tt> <tt class="literal">archive</tt>, 499<tt class="literal">map</tt> <tt class="literal">hidden</tt>, or 500<tt class="literal">map</tt> <tt class="literal">system</tt>. Samba never sets 501the <tt class="literal">setuid</tt> bit when creating a file or directory.</p></div> 502<a name="INDEX-167"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>interfaces = interface list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 503</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: interface list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL (all interfaces except 127.0.0.1)</p><p>Sets the interfaces to which Samba will respond. The default is the 504system's primary interface only. Recommended on 505multihomed systems or to override erroneous addresses and netmasks. 506Allows interface names such as <tt class="literal">eth0</tt>, DNS names, 507address/netmask pairs, and broadcast/netmask pairs. See also 508<tt class="literal">bind interfaces only</tt>.</p></div> 509<a name="INDEX-168"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>invalid users = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of users not permitted access to the share.</p></div> 510<a name="INDEX-169"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>keepalive = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 511</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 300</p><p>Sets the number of seconds between checks for a crashed client. The 512value of 0 causes no checks to be performed. Setting 513<tt class="literal">keepalive = 3600</tt> will turn on checks every hour. A 514value of 600 (every 10 minutes) is recommended if you want more 515frequent checks. See also <tt class="literal">socket</tt> 516<tt class="literal">options</tt> for another approach.</p></div> 517<a name="INDEX-170"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>kernel oplocks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 518</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Breaks the oplock when a local Unix process or NFS operation accesses 519an oplocked file, thus preventing corruption. This works only on 520operating systems that support kernel-based oplocks, such as Linux 5212.4 and Irix. Avoid changing. See also <tt class="literal">oplocks</tt> and 522<tt class="literal">level2</tt> <tt class="literal">oplocks</tt>.</p></div> 523<a name="INDEX-171"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lanman auth = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 524</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES, allows clients to use the (weak) LANMAN password hash 525used by Windows 95/98/Me. If set to NO, allows only the better NT1 526hash used by Windows NT/2000/XP.</p></div> 527<a name="INDEX-172"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>large readwrite = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 528</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO in Samba 2.2, YES in Samba 3.0</p><p>If set to YES, allows Windows 2000/XP to read and write 64KB at a 529time to improve performance. Requires Samba to be hosted by a 64-bit 530OS, such as Linux 2.4, Irix, or Solaris. Somewhat experimental.</p></div> 531<a name="INDEX-173"/><a name="INDEX-174"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap admin dn = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 532</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: Distinguished Name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the Distinguished Name used by Samba when contacting the LDAP 533server. Requires Samba to be configured with the 534<tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> configuration option. Experimental 535option added in Samba 2.2.3 and <a name="INDEX-174"/>obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 536<a name="INDEX-175"/><a name="INDEX-176"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap filter = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 537</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: LDAP search filter</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <tt class="literal">(&(uid=%u)(objectclass=sambaAccount))</tt></p><p>Sets the LDAP search filter. Requires that Samba be configured with 538the <tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> configuration option. 539Experimental option added in Samba 2.2.3 and 540<a name="INDEX-176"/>obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 541<a name="INDEX-177"/><a name="INDEX-178"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap port = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 542</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: In Samba 2.2, 636 if <tt class="literal">ldap ssl = on</tt>; 543otherwise 389</p><p>Sets the TCP port number for contacting the LDAP server. Requires 544that Samba be configured with the <tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> 545configuration option. Experimental option added in Samba 2.2.3 and 546<a name="INDEX-178"/>obsolete 547starting with Samba 3.0. See also <tt class="literal">ldap ssl</tt>.</p></div> 548<a name="INDEX-179"/><a name="INDEX-180"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap server = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 549</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: fully qualified domain name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: localhost</p><p>Sets the domain name of the LDAP server. Requires that Samba be 550configured with the <tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> configuration 551option. Experimental option added in Samba 2.2.3 and 552<a name="INDEX-180"/>obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 553<a name="INDEX-181"/><a name="INDEX-182"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap ssl = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 554</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: ON, OFF, START TLS</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: ON</p><p>Sets whether Samba uses SSL to contact the LDAP server. ON and OFF 555turn SSL encryption on or off. The START TLS setting causes Samba to 556use LDAPv3 StartTLS extended operation. Requires that Samba be 557configured with the <tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> configuration 558option. Experimental option added in Samba 2.2.3 and 559<a name="INDEX-182"/>obsolete 560in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 561<a name="INDEX-183"/><a name="INDEX-184"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ldap suffix = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 562</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: Distinguished Name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the base Distinguished Name to use for LDAP searches. Requires 563that Samba be configured with the <tt class="literal">--with-ldapsam</tt> 564configuration option. Experimental option added in Samba 2.2.3 and 565<a name="INDEX-184"/>obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 566<a name="INDEX-185"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>level2 oplocks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows files to be cached read-only on the client when multiple 567clients have opened the file. This allows executables to be cached 568locally, improving performance.</p></div> 569<a name="INDEX-186"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lm announce = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 570</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: AUTO, YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: AUTO</p><p>Produces OS/2 SMB broadcasts at an interval specified by the 571<tt class="literal">lm</tt> <tt class="literal">interval</tt> option. YES/NO 572turns them on/off unconditionally. AUTO causes the Samba server to 573wait for a LAN manager announcement from another client before 574sending one out. Required for OS/2 client browsing.</p></div> 575<a name="INDEX-187"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lm interval = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 576</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 60</p><p>Sets the time period, in seconds, between OS/2 SMB broadcast 577announcements.</p></div> 578<a name="INDEX-188"/><a name="INDEX-189"/><a name="INDEX-190"/><a name="INDEX-191"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>load printers = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 579</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Loads all printer names from the system's 580<em class="emphasis">printcap</em><a name="INDEX-189"/> file into the 581<a name="INDEX-190"/><a name="INDEX-191"/>browse 582list. Uses configuration options from the 583<tt class="literal">[printers]</tt> section.</p></div> 584<a name="INDEX-192"/><a name="INDEX-193"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>local master = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 585</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows Samba to participate in <a name="INDEX-193"/>elections for the local master 586browser. See also <tt class="literal">domain</tt> <tt class="literal">master</tt> 587and <tt class="literal">os</tt> <tt class="literal">level</tt>.</p></div> 588<a name="INDEX-194"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lock dir = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 589</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="emphasis">/usr/local/samba/var/locks</em></p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">lock</tt> <tt class="literal">directory</tt>.</p></div> 590<a name="INDEX-195"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lock directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 591</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="emphasis">/usr/local/samba/var/locks</em></p><p>Sets a directory in which to keep lock files. The directory must be 592writable by Samba and readable by everyone. Also called 593<tt class="literal">lock</tt> <tt class="literal">dir</tt>.</p></div> 594<a name="INDEX-196"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lock spin count = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 595</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 2</p><p>Sets the number of attempts to attain a byte range lock. See also 596<tt class="literal">lock spin time</tt>.</p></div> 597<a name="INDEX-197"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lock spin time = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 598</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of microseconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 10</p><p>Sets the number of microseconds between attempts to attain a lock. 599See also <tt class="literal">lock</tt> <tt class="literal">spin</tt> 600<tt class="literal">count</tt>.</p></div> 601<a name="INDEX-198"/><a name="INDEX-199"/><a name="INDEX-200"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>locking = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Performs <a name="INDEX-199"/><a name="INDEX-200"/>file locking. If set to NO, Samba 602accepts lock requests but won't actually lock 603resources. Turn off for read-only filesystems.</p></div> 604<a name="INDEX-201"/><a name="INDEX-202"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>log file = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 605</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the name and location of the <a name="INDEX-202"/>log file. Allows all <tt class="literal">%</tt> 606variables.</p></div> 607<a name="INDEX-203"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>log level = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 608</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Sets the logging level used. Values of 3 or more slow the system 609noticeably. Recommended value is 1. Synonym for 610<tt class="literal">debug</tt> <tt class="literal">level</tt>.</p></div> 611<a name="INDEX-204"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>logon drive = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 612</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: MS-DOS drive name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: Z:</p><p>Sets the drive to be used as a home directory for domain logons by 613Windows NT/2000/XP clients. See also <tt class="literal">logon</tt> 614<tt class="literal">home</tt>.</p></div> 615<a name="INDEX-205"/><a name="INDEX-206"/><a name="INDEX-207"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>logon home = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 616</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: UNC of shared directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">\\ %N \ %U</em></p><p>Sets the home <a name="INDEX-206"/><a name="INDEX-207"/>directory of a Windows 95/98/Me or 617NT/2000/XP user. Allows <tt class="literal">NET</tt> <tt class="literal">USE</tt> 618<tt class="literal">H:/HOME</tt> from the command prompt if Samba is acting 619as a logon server. Append <tt class="literal">\profile</tt> or other 620directory to the value of this parameter if storing Windows 95/98/Me 621profiles in a subdirectory of the user's home 622directory. See <tt class="literal">logon path</tt> for Windows NT/2000/XP 623roaming profiles.</p></div> 624<a name="INDEX-208"/><a name="INDEX-209"/><a name="INDEX-210"/><a name="INDEX-211"/><a name="INDEX-212"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>logon path = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 625</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: UNC of shared directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">\\ %N \ %U \ profile</em></p><p>Sets the path to the directory where Windows NT/2000/XP 626<a name="INDEX-209"/><a name="INDEX-210"/><a name="INDEX-211"/><a name="INDEX-212"/>roaming profiles are stored. See 627also <tt class="literal">logon home</tt> for Windows 95/98/Me roaming 628profiles.</p></div> 629<a name="INDEX-213"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>logon script = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 630</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: UNC of shared file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the pathname (relative to the <tt class="literal">[netlogon]</tt> 631share) of an MS-DOS/NT command to run on the client at logon time. 632Allows all <tt class="literal">%</tt> variables.</p></div> 633<a name="INDEX-214"/><a name="INDEX-215"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lppause command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command to pause a <a name="INDEX-215"/>print job. 634Honors the <tt class="literal">%p</tt> (printer name) and 635<tt class="literal">%j</tt> (job number) variables.</p></div> 636<a name="INDEX-216"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lpq cache time = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 637</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 10</p><p>Sets how long to keep print queue status cached, in seconds.</p></div> 638<a name="INDEX-217"/><a name="INDEX-218"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lpq command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command used to get <a name="INDEX-218"/>printer status. Usually 639initialized to a default value by the <tt class="literal">printing</tt> 640option. Honors the <tt class="literal">%p</tt> (printer name) variable.</p></div> 641<a name="INDEX-219"/><a name="INDEX-220"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lpresume command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command to resume a paused <a name="INDEX-220"/>print job. 642Honors the <tt class="literal">%p</tt> (printer name) and 643<tt class="literal">%j</tt> ( job number) variables.</p></div> 644<a name="INDEX-221"/><a name="INDEX-222"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>lprm command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command to delete a <a name="INDEX-222"/>print job. 645Usually initialized to a default value by the 646<tt class="literal">printing</tt> option. Honors the <tt class="literal">%p</tt> 647(printer name) and <tt class="literal">%j</tt> (job number) variables.</p></div> 648<a name="INDEX-223"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>machine password timeout = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 604800 (1 week)</p><p>Sets the period between (NT domain) computer account password changes.</p></div> 649<a name="INDEX-224"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>magic output = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="replaceable">command</em><em class="emphasis">.out</em></p><p>Sets the output file for the <tt class="literal">magic</tt> 650<tt class="literal">scripts</tt> option. Default is the command name, 651followed by the <em class="emphasis">.out</em> extension.</p></div> 652<a name="INDEX-225"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>magic script = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a filename for execution via a shell whenever the file is closed 653from the client, allowing clients to run commands on the server. The 654scripts will be deleted on completion, if permissions allow. Use is 655discouraged.</p></div> 656<a name="INDEX-226"/><a name="INDEX-227"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangle case = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p><a name="INDEX-227"/>Mangles a 657name if it is in mixed case.</p></div> 658<a name="INDEX-228"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangled map = map list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of to/from pairs</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets up a table of names to remap (e.g., <em class="emphasis">.html</em> 659to <em class="emphasis">.htm</em>).</p></div> 660<a name="INDEX-229"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangled names = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Sets Samba to abbreviate to the MS-DOS 8.3 style names that are too 661long or have unsupported characters.</p></div> 662<a name="INDEX-230"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangled stack = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 663</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 50</p><p>Sets the size of the cache of recently mangled filenames.</p></div> 664<a name="INDEX-231"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangling char = character</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: character</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: ~</p><p>Sets the unique mangling character used in all mangled names.</p></div> 665<a name="INDEX-232"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>mangling method = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 666</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: hash, hash2</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: hash</p><p>Sets the algorithm used to mangle filenames. The 667<tt class="literal">hash2</tt> method is a newer method introduced in Samba 6682.2.x, and it creates different filenames than the 669<tt class="literal">hash</tt> method.</p></div> 670<a name="INDEX-233"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>map archive = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, Samba sets the executable-by-user (0100) bit on Unix files if 671the MS-DOS archive attribute is set. If used, the 672<tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt> must contain the 6730100 bit.</p></div> 674<a name="INDEX-234"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>map hidden = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, Samba sets the executable-by-other (0001) bit on Unix files 675if the MS-DOS hidden attribute is set. If used, the <tt class="literal">create 676mask</tt> option must contain the 0001 bit.</p></div> 677<a name="INDEX-235"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>map system = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, Samba sets the executable-by-group (0010) bit on Unix files 678if the MS-DOS system attribute is set. If used, the 679<tt class="literal">create</tt> <tt class="literal">mask</tt> must contain the 6800010 bit.</p></div> 681<a name="INDEX-236"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>map to guest = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 682</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: Never, Bad User, Bad Password</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: Never</p><p>If set to Bad User, allows users without accounts on the Samba system 683to log in and be assigned the guest account. This option can be used 684as part of making public shares for anyone to use. If set to Bad 685Password, users who mistype their passwords will be logged in to the 686guest account instead of their own. Because no warning is given, the 687Bad Password value can be extremely confusing: we recommend against 688it. The default setting of Never prevents users without accounts from 689logging in.</p></div> 690<a name="INDEX-237"/><a name="INDEX-238"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max connections = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (infinity)</p><p>Sets the maximum number of 691<a name="INDEX-238"/>share connections allowed from each 692client system.</p></div> 693<a name="INDEX-239"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max disk size = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 694</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: size in MB</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (no limit)</p><p>Sets the maximum disk size/free-space size (in megabytes) to return 695to the client. Some clients or applications can't 696understand large maximum disk sizes.</p></div> 697<a name="INDEX-240"/><a name="INDEX-241"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max log size = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 698</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: size in KB</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 5000</p><p>Sets the size (in kilobytes) at which Samba will start a new 699<a name="INDEX-241"/>log file. The current log file will be 700renamed with a <em class="emphasis">.old</em> extension, replacing any 701existing file with that name.</p></div> 702<a name="INDEX-242"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max mux = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 703</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 50</p><p>Sets the number of simultaneous SMB operations that Samba clients can 704make. Avoid changing.</p></div> 705<a name="INDEX-243"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max open files = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 706</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 10000</p><p>Limits the number of files a Samba process will try to keep open at 707one time. Samba allows you to set this to less than the maximum 708imposed by the Unix host operating system. Avoid changing.</p></div> 709<a name="INDEX-244"/><a name="INDEX-245"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max print jobs = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 1000</p><p>Limits the number of jobs that can be in the queue for this 710<a name="INDEX-245"/>printer share at any one time. The printer 711will report <tt class="literal">out of space</tt> if the limit is exceeded. 712See also <tt class="literal">total print jobs</tt>.</p></div> 713<a name="INDEX-246"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max protocol = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 714</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2, NT1</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NT1</p><p>If set, limits the negotiation to the protocol specified, or older. 715See <tt class="literal">min protocol</tt>. Avoid using.</p></div> 716<a name="INDEX-247"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max smbd processes = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 717</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (no limit)</p><p>Limits the number of users who can connect to the server. Used to 718prevent degraded service under an overload, at the cost of refusing 719services entirely.</p></div> 720<a name="INDEX-248"/><a name="INDEX-249"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max ttl = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 721</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 259200 (3 days)</p><p>Sets the <a name="INDEX-249"/>time to live (TTL) of NetBIOS names in the 722<em class="emphasis">nmbd</em> WINS cache. Avoid changing.</p></div> 723<a name="INDEX-250"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max wins ttl = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 724</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 518400 (6 days)</p><p>Limits the TTL, in seconds, of a NetBIOS name in the 725<em class="emphasis">nmbd</em> WINS cache. Avoid changing. See also 726<tt class="literal">min wins ttl</tt>.</p></div> 727<a name="INDEX-251"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>max xmit = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 728</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: size in bytes</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 65535</p><p>Sets the maximum packet size negotiated by Samba. This is a tuning 729parameter for slow links and bugs in older clients. Values less than 7302048 are discouraged.</p></div> 731<a name="INDEX-252"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>message command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 732</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the command to run on the server when a WinPopup message arrives 733from a client. If it does not complete quickly, the command must end 734in <tt class="literal">&</tt> to allow immediate return. Honors all 735<tt class="literal">%</tt> variables except <tt class="literal">%u</tt> (user) 736and supports the extra variables <tt class="literal">%s</tt> (filename the 737message is in), <tt class="literal">%t</tt> (destination system), and 738<tt class="literal">%f</tt> (from).</p></div> 739<a name="INDEX-253"/><a name="INDEX-254"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>min passwd length = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 740</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 5</p><p><a name="INDEX-254"/>Synonym for <tt class="literal">min</tt> 741<tt class="literal">password</tt> <tt class="literal">length</tt>.</p></div> 742<a name="INDEX-255"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>min password length = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 743</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 5</p><p>Sets the shortest Unix password allowed by Samba when updating a 744user's password on its system. Also called 745<tt class="literal">min</tt> <tt class="literal">passwd</tt> 746<tt class="literal">length</tt>.</p></div> 747<a name="INDEX-256"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>min print space = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: space in kilobytes</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (unlimited)</p><p>Sets the minimum spool space required before accepting a print 748request.</p></div> 749<a name="INDEX-257"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>min protocol = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 750</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2, NT1</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: CORE</p><p>If set, prevents use of old (less secure) protocols. Using NT1 751disables MS-DOS clients. See also <tt class="literal">lanman auth</tt>.</p></div> 752<a name="INDEX-258"/><a name="INDEX-259"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>min wins ttl = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 753</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 21600 (6 hours)</p><p>Sets the minimum <a name="INDEX-259"/>TTL, in seconds, of a NetBIOS name in the 754<em class="emphasis">nmbd</em> WINS cache. Avoid changing.</p></div> 755<a name="INDEX-260"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>msdfs root = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Makes the share a Dfs <tt class="literal">root</tt>. Requires the 756<tt class="literal">--with-msdfs</tt> configure option. Any symbolic links 757of the form <tt class="literal">msdfs:server\share</tt> will be seen as Dfs 758links. See also <tt class="literal">host msdfs</tt>.</p></div> 759<a name="INDEX-261"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>name resolve order = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 760</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: lmhosts, wins, host, bcast</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: lmhosts, host, wins, bcast</p><p>Sets the order of lookup when trying to get IP addresses from names. 761The host parameter carries out a regular name lookup using the 762server's normal sources: 763<em class="emphasis">/etc/hosts</em>, DNS, NIS, or a combination of these.</p></div> 764<a name="INDEX-262"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>netbios aliases = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 765</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of NetBIOS names</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Adds additional NetBIOS names by which the Samba server will 766advertise itself.</p></div> 767<a name="INDEX-263"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>netbios name = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: local hostname</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: DNS name of system</p><p>Sets the NetBIOS name by which a Samba server is known, or the 768primary name if NetBIOS aliases exist. See also <tt class="literal">netbios 769aliases</tt>.</p></div> 770<a name="INDEX-264"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>netbios scope = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 771</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: string</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the NetBIOS scope string, an early predecessor of workgroups. 772Samba will not communicate with a system with a different scope. This 773option is not recommended.</p></div> 774<a name="INDEX-265"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>nis homedir = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 775</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, the <tt class="literal">homedir</tt> <tt class="literal">map</tt> is used 776to look up the server hosting the user's home 777directory and return it to the client. The client will contact that 778system to connect to the share. This avoids mounting from a system 779that doesn't actually have the directory, which 780would cause the data to be transmitted twice. The system with the 781home directories must be an SMB server.</p></div> 782<a name="INDEX-266"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>non unix account range = numeric range</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 783</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: range of positive integers</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Specifies a range of Unix UIDs for Samba to use for user accounts and 784computer accounts that are maintained outside of 785<em class="filename">/etc/passwd</em>. The UIDs in this range must not 786overlap those of regular Unix users in 787<em class="filename">/etc/passwd</em>. See also <tt class="literal">algorithmic rid 788base</tt>. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 789<a name="INDEX-267"/><a name="INDEX-268"/><a name="INDEX-269"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>nt acl support = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Causes the Samba server to map Unix 790<a name="INDEX-268"/><a name="INDEX-269"/>permissions to Windows NT 791ACLs.</p></div> 792<a name="INDEX-270"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>nt pipe support = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 793</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows turning off of NT-specific pipe calls. This is a 794developer/benchmarking option and might be removed in the future. 795Avoid changing.</p></div> 796<a name="INDEX-271"/><a name="INDEX-272"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>nt smb support = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 797</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, allows the use of NT-specific SMBs. This is a 798developer/benchmarking option that is <a name="INDEX-272"/>obsolete in Samba 3.0. Avoid changing.</p></div> 799<a name="INDEX-273"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>nt status support = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 800</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, allows the use of NT-specific status messages. This is a 801developer/benchmarking option and might be removed in the future. 802Avoid changing.</p></div> 803<a name="INDEX-274"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>null passwords = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 804</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, allows access to accounts that have null passwords. Strongly 805discouraged.</p></div> 806<a name="INDEX-275"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>obey pam restrictions = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 807</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, Samba will adhere to the PAM's account and 808session restrictions. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-pam</tt> 809configuration option.</p></div> 810<a name="INDEX-276"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>only guest = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Forces users of a share to log on as the guest account. Synonym for 811<tt class="literal">guest</tt> <tt class="literal">only</tt>. Requires 812<tt class="literal">guest</tt> <tt class="literal">ok</tt> or 813<tt class="literal">public</tt> to be YES.</p></div> 814<a name="INDEX-277"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>only user = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Requires that users of the share be in the list specified by the 815<tt class="literal">user</tt> option.</p></div> 816<a name="INDEX-278"/><a name="INDEX-279"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>oplock break wait time = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 817</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p><a name="INDEX-279"/>This is an advanced tuning parameter and 818is recommended only for experts who know how Samba handles oplocks. 819This option might need to be set if a Windows system fails to release 820an oplock in response to a break request from the Samba server. Due 821to bugs on some Windows systems, they might fail to respond if Samba 822responds too quickly; the default on this option can be lengthened in 823such cases.</p></div> 824<a name="INDEX-280"/><a name="INDEX-281"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>oplock contention limit = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of milliseconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 2</p><p><a name="INDEX-281"/>This is an advanced tuning 825parameter and is recommended only for experts who know how Samba 826handles oplocks. It causes Samba to refuse to grant an oplock if the 827number of clients contending for a file exceeds the specified value.</p></div> 828<a name="INDEX-282"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>oplocks = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If YES, supports local caching of oplocked files on the client. This 829option is recommended because it improves performance by about 30%. 830See also <tt class="literal">fake</tt> <tt class="literal">oplocks</tt> and 831<tt class="literal">veto</tt> <tt class="literal">oplock</tt> 832<tt class="literal">files</tt>.</p></div> 833<a name="INDEX-283"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>os level = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 834</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 20</p><p>Sets the candidacy of the server when electing a browse master. Used 835with the <tt class="literal">domain</tt> <tt class="literal">master</tt> or 836<tt class="literal">local</tt> <tt class="literal">master</tt> options. You can 837set a higher value than a competing operating system if you want 838Samba to win. Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95/98/Me use 1. 839Windows NT/2000/XP, when not acting as a PDC, use 16 and, when acting 840as a PDC, use 32. Warning: this can override non-Samba browse masters 841unexpectedly.</p></div> 842<a name="INDEX-284"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>os2 driver map = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 843</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a file containing mappings of Windows NT printer driver 844names to OS/2 printer driver names.</p></div> 845<a name="INDEX-285"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>pam password change = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 846</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, and if Samba is configured with 847<tt class="literal">--with-pam</tt>, PAM is allowed to handle password 848changes from clients, instead of using the program defined by the 849<tt class="literal">passwd</tt> <tt class="literal">program</tt> parameter.</p></div> 850<a name="INDEX-286"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>panic action = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 851</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the command to run when Samba panics. Honors all 852<tt class="literal">%</tt> variables. For Samba developers and testers, 853<tt class="literal">/usr/bin/X11/xterm</tt> <tt class="literal">-display</tt> 854<tt class="literal">:0</tt> <tt class="literal">-e</tt> <tt class="literal">gdb</tt> 855<tt class="literal">/samba/bin/smbd</tt> <tt class="literal">%d</tt> is a 856possible value.</p></div> 857<a name="INDEX-287"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>passdb backend = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 858</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: smbpasswd, smbpasswd_nua, tdbsam, tdbsam_nua, plugin</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: smbpasswd</p><p>Specifies methods Samba uses to store and retrieve passwords when 859using a method other than the Unix system's 860<em class="filename">/etc/passwd</em>. See also <tt class="literal">non unix account 861range</tt>. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 862<a name="INDEX-288"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>passwd chat = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 863</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: sequence of strings</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: compiled-in value</p><p>Sets the chat strings used to change passwords on the server. 864Supports the variables <tt class="literal">%o</tt> (old password) and 865<tt class="literal">%n</tt> (new password) and allows the escapes 866<tt class="literal">\r</tt>, <tt class="literal">\n</tt>, <tt class="literal">\t</tt>, 867and <tt class="literal">\s</tt> (space) in the sequence. See also 868<tt class="literal">unix password sync</tt>, <tt class="literal">passwd 869program</tt>, <tt class="literal">passwd chat debug</tt>, and 870<tt class="literal">pam</tt> <tt class="literal">password change</tt>.</p></div> 871<a name="INDEX-289"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>passwd chat debug = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 872</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Logs an entire password chat, including passwords passed, with a log 873level of 100. For debugging only. See also <tt class="literal">passwd 874chat</tt>, <tt class="literal">pam password change</tt>, and 875<tt class="literal">passwd program</tt>.</p></div> 876<a name="INDEX-290"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>passwd program = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 877</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/bin/passwd</em></p><p>Sets the command used to change a user's password. 878Will be run as <tt class="literal">root</tt>. Supports 879<tt class="literal">%u</tt> (user). See also <tt class="literal">unix password 880sync</tt>.</p></div> 881<a name="INDEX-291"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>password level = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 882</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Specifies the number of uppercase-letter permutations used to match 883passwords. A workaround for clients that change passwords to a single 884case before sending them to the Samba server. Causes repeated login 885attempts with mixed-case passwords, which can trigger account 886lockouts. Required for Windows 95/98/Me, plain-text passwords, and 887mixed-case passwords. Try to avoid using.</p></div> 888<a name="INDEX-292"/><a name="INDEX-293"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>password server = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of NetBIOS names</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of SMB servers that validate 889<a name="INDEX-293"/>passwords. Used with a Windows 890NT/2000 password server (PDC or BDC) and the 891<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 892<tt class="literal">server</tt> or <tt class="literal">security</tt> 893<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">domain</tt> configuration options. 894Caution: a Windows NT/2000 password server must allow logins from the 895Samba server. If set to <tt class="literal">*</tt>, Samba will look up the 896PDC by resolving the NetBIOS name WORKGROUP<1C>.</p></div> 897<a name="INDEX-294"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>path = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the path to the directory provided by a file share or used by a 898printer share. If the option is omitted, it is set automatically in 899the <tt class="literal">[homes]</tt> share to the user's 900home directory; otherwise, defaults to<em class="filename"> /tmp</em>. 901Honors the <tt class="literal">%u</tt> (user) and <tt class="literal">%m</tt> 902(machine) variables.</p></div> 903<a name="INDEX-295"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>pid directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 904</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/samba/var/locks</em></p><p>Sets the path to the directory where PID files are located.</p></div> 905<a name="INDEX-296"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>posix locking = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES, Samba will map file locks owned by SMB clients to 906POSIX locks. Avoid changing.</p></div> 907<a name="INDEX-297"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>postexec = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a command to run as the user after disconnecting from the share. 908See also the <tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, <tt class="literal">root</tt> 909<tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, and <tt class="literal">root</tt> 910<tt class="literal">postexec</tt> options.</p></div> 911<a name="INDEX-298"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>postscript = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Forces a printer to recognize a file as PostScript by inserting 912<tt class="literal">%!</tt> as the first line. Works only if the printer is 913actually PostScript-compatible.</p></div> 914<a name="INDEX-299"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>preexec = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a command to run as the user before connecting to the share. 915Synonym for <tt class="literal">exec</tt>. See also the 916<tt class="literal">postexec</tt>, <tt class="literal">root</tt> 917<tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, and <tt class="literal">root</tt> 918<tt class="literal">postexec</tt> options.</p></div> 919<a name="INDEX-300"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>preexec close = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, allows the <tt class="literal">preexec</tt> command to decide if 920the share can be accessed by the user. If the command returns a 921nonzero return code, the user is denied permission to connect.</p></div> 922<a name="INDEX-301"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>preferred master = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 923</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: auto</p><p>If YES, Samba is the preferred master browser. Causes Samba to call a 924browsing election when it comes online. See also <tt class="literal">os 925level</tt>.</p></div> 926<a name="INDEX-302"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>prefered master = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 927</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: auto</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">preferred master</tt>.</p></div> 928<a name="INDEX-303"/><a name="INDEX-304"/><a name="INDEX-305"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>preload = service list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of shares</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of shares that always appears in 929<a name="INDEX-304"/><a name="INDEX-305"/>browse lists. Synonym for 930<tt class="literal">auto</tt> <tt class="literal">services</tt>. See also 931<tt class="literal">load printers</tt>.</p></div> 932<a name="INDEX-306"/><a name="INDEX-307"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>preserve case = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p><a name="INDEX-307"/>Leaves filenames in the case 933sent by the client. If NO, it forces filenames to the case specified 934by the <tt class="literal">default</tt> <tt class="literal">case</tt> option. See 935also <tt class="literal">short</tt> <tt class="literal">preserve</tt> 936<tt class="literal">case</tt>.</p></div> 937<a name="INDEX-308"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Sets a share to be a print share. Required for all printers. Synonym 938for <tt class="literal">print</tt> <tt class="literal">ok</tt>.</p></div> 939<a name="INDEX-309"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printcap name = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 940</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="emphasis">/etc/printcap</em></p><p>Sets the path to the printer capabilities file used by the 941<tt class="literal">[printers]</tt> share. The default value changes to 942<em class="filename">/etc/qconfig</em> under AIX and 943<em class="filename">lpstat</em> on System V. Also called 944<tt class="literal">printcap</tt>.</p></div> 945<a name="INDEX-310"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>print command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command used to send a spooled file to the printer. Usually 946initialized to a default value corresponding to the 947<tt class="literal">printing</tt> option. This option honors the 948<tt class="literal">%p</tt> (printer name), <tt class="literal">%s</tt> (spool 949file), and <tt class="literal">%f</tt> (spool file as a relative path) 950variables. The command must delete the spool file.</p></div> 951<a name="INDEX-311"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: printer name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: lp</p><p>Sets the name of the Unix printer used by the share. Also called 952<tt class="literal">printer</tt> <tt class="literal">name</tt>.</p></div> 953<a name="INDEX-312"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer admin = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies users who can administer a printer using the remote printer 954administration interface on a Windows system. The 955<tt class="literal">root</tt> user always has these privileges.</p></div> 956<a name="INDEX-313"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer driver = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: exact printer driver string used by Windows</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the string to pass to Windows when asked which driver to use to 957prepare files for a printer share. Note that the value is 958case-sensitive. Part of pre-2.2 printing system. Deprecated.</p></div> 959<a name="INDEX-314"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer driver file = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 960</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="emphasis">/usr/local/samba/printers/printers.def</em></p><p>Sets the location of a <em class="emphasis">msprint.def</em> file. Usable 961by Windows 95/98/Me. Part of pre-2.2 printing system. Deprecated.</p></div> 962<a name="INDEX-315"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer driver location = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: UNC of shared directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">\\ server\ PRINTER$</em></p><p>Sets the location of the driver for a particular printer. The value 963is the pathname of the share that stores the printer driver files. 964Part of pre-2.2 printing system. Deprecated.</p></div> 965<a name="INDEX-316"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printer name = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">printer</tt>.</p></div> 966<a name="INDEX-317"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>printing = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: bsd, sysv, hpux, aix, qnx, plp, softq, lprng, cups</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: bsd</p><p>Sets the printing style to a value other than that in which 967you've compiled. This sets initial values of at 968least <tt class="literal">print</tt> <tt class="literal">command</tt> , 969<tt class="literal">lpq</tt> <tt class="literal">command</tt> , and 970<tt class="literal">lprm</tt> <tt class="literal">command</tt>.</p></div> 971<a name="INDEX-318"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>print ok = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">printable</tt>.</p></div> 972<a name="INDEX-319"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>private directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 973</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/samba/private</em></p><p>Specifies the directory used for storing security-sensitive files 974such as <em class="filename">smbpasswd</em> and 975<em class="filename">secrets.tdb</em>. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 976<a name="INDEX-320"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>protocol = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 977</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: NT1, LANMAN2, LANMAN1, COREPLUS, CORE</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NT1</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">max protocol</tt>.</p></div> 978<a name="INDEX-321"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>public = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If YES, passwords are not needed for this share. Also called 979<tt class="literal">guest</tt> <tt class="literal">ok</tt>.</p></div> 980<a name="INDEX-322"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>queuepause command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to script</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command used to pause a print queue. Usually initialized to 981a default value by the <tt class="literal">printing</tt> option.</p></div> 982<a name="INDEX-323"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>queueresume command = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to script</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Sets the command used to resume a print queue. Usually initialized to 983a default value by the <tt class="literal">printing</tt> option.</p></div> 984<a name="INDEX-324"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>read bmpx = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, supports the "Read Block 985Multiplex" message. Avoid changing.</p></div> 986<a name="INDEX-325"/><a name="INDEX-326"/><a name="INDEX-327"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>read list = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of user and/or group names</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of <a name="INDEX-326"/><a name="INDEX-327"/>users given read-only access 987to a writable share.</p></div> 988<a name="INDEX-328"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>read only = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Sets a share to read-only. Antonym of <tt class="literal">writable</tt>, 989<tt class="literal">writeable</tt>, and <tt class="literal">write ok</tt>.</p></div> 990<a name="INDEX-329"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>read raw = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 991</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows clients to read data using a 64K packet size. Recommended.</p></div> 992<a name="INDEX-330"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>read size = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 993</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: positive integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 16384</p><p>Allows disk reads and writes to overlap network reads and writes. A 994tuning parameter. Do not set larger than the default.</p></div> 995<a name="INDEX-331"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>realm = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 996</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: Kerberos realm name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Specifies the realm name for Kerberos 5 authentication. Requires the 997<tt class="literal">--with-krb5</tt> configure option. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 998<a name="INDEX-332"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>remote announce = remote list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 999</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of remote addresses</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Adds workgroups to the list on which the Samba server will announce 1000itself. Specified as an IP address and optional workgroup (for 1001instance, 192.168.220.215/SIMPLE) with multiple entries separated by 1002spaces. Addresses can be the specific address of the browse master on 1003a subnet or on directed broadcasts (i.e., ###.###.###.255). The 1004server will appear on those workgroups' browse 1005lists. Does not require WINS.</p></div> 1006<a name="INDEX-333"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>remote browse sync = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1007</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: IP addresses</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Perform browse list synchronization with other Samba local master 1008browsers. Addresses can be specific addresses or directed broadcasts 1009(i.e., ###.###.###.255). The latter causes Samba to locate the local 1010master browser on that subnet.</p></div> 1011<a name="INDEX-334"/><a name="INDEX-335"/><a name="INDEX-336"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>restrict anonymous = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1012</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p><a name="INDEX-335"/><a name="INDEX-336"/>Denies access to users who do not 1013supply a username. This is disabled by default because when the Samba 1014server acts as the domain's PDC, the option can keep 1015a client from revalidating its computer account when someone new logs 1016in. Use of the option is recommended only when all clients are 1017Windows NT/2000/XP systems.</p></div> 1018<a name="INDEX-337"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1019</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">root</tt> <tt class="literal">directory</tt>.</p></div> 1020<a name="INDEX-338"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root dir = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1021</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">root</tt> <tt class="literal">directory</tt>.</p></div> 1022<a name="INDEX-339"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1023</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: /</p><p>Specifies a directory to <em class="emphasis">chroot( )</em> before 1024starting daemons. Prevents any access outside that directory tree. 1025See also the <tt class="literal">wide</tt> <tt class="literal">links</tt> 1026configuration option. Also called <tt class="literal">root</tt> and 1027<tt class="literal">root</tt> <tt class="literal">dir</tt>.</p></div> 1028<a name="INDEX-340"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root postexec = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a command to run as <tt class="literal">root</tt> after disconnecting 1029from the share. See also the <tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, 1030<tt class="literal">postexec</tt>, and <tt class="literal">root</tt> 1031<tt class="literal">preexec</tt> configuration options. Runs after the 1032user's <tt class="literal">postexec</tt> command. Use with 1033caution.</p></div> 1034<a name="INDEX-341"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root preexec = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a command to run as <tt class="literal">root</tt> before connecting to 1035the share. See also the <tt class="literal">preexec</tt>, 1036<tt class="literal">postexec</tt>, and <tt class="literal">root</tt> 1037<tt class="literal">postexec</tt> configuration options. Runs before the 1038user's <tt class="literal">preexec</tt> command. Use with 1039caution.</p></div> 1040<a name="INDEX-342"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>root preexec close = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set, allows the <tt class="literal">root</tt> <tt class="literal">preexec</tt> 1041command to decide if the share can be accessed by the user. If the 1042command returns a nonzero return code, the user will be denied 1043permission to connect.</p></div> 1044<a name="INDEX-343"/><a name="INDEX-344"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>security = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1045</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: share, user, server, domain</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: user</p><p>Sets the client 1046<a name="INDEX-344"/>authentication method. If 1047<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 1048<tt class="literal">share</tt>, services are password-protected, available 1049to everyone who knows the password. If <tt class="literal">security</tt> 1050<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">user</tt>, users have accounts and 1051passwords, and are required to authenticate with the server before 1052accessing services. If <tt class="literal">security</tt> 1053<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">server</tt>, users have accounts 1054and passwords as with <tt class="literal">security = user</tt>, and a 1055separate system authenticates them for Samba. If 1056<tt class="literal">security</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 1057<tt class="literal">domain</tt>, Windows NT domain authentication is 1058implemented using a Windows NT/2000 or other Samba server to validate 1059accounts. See also the <tt class="literal">password server</tt> and 1060<tt class="literal">encrypted</tt> <tt class="literal">passwords</tt> 1061configuration options.</p></div> 1062<a name="INDEX-345"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>security mask = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: octal value from 0 to 0777</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0777</p><p>Controls which permission bits can be changed if a user on a Windows 1063NT/2000/XP system edits the Unix permissions of files on the Samba 1064server using the Windows system's ACL editing dialog 1065box. Any bit that is set in the mask can be changed by the user; any 1066bit that is clear remains the same on the file even if the user tries 1067to change it. Requires <tt class="literal">nt</tt> <tt class="literal">acl</tt> 1068<tt class="literal">support</tt> <tt class="literal">=</tt> 1069<tt class="literal">YES</tt>. Note that some rarely used bits map to the 1070DOS system, hidden, and archive bits in the file attributes in a 1071nonintuitive way.</p></div> 1072<a name="INDEX-346"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>server string = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1073</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: string</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: Samba <tt class="literal">%v</tt></p><p>Sets the name that corresponds to the Samba server in browse lists. 1074Honors the <tt class="literal">%v</tt> (Samba version number) and 1075<tt class="literal">%h</tt> (hostname) variables.</p></div> 1076<a name="INDEX-347"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>set directory = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Allows the DEC Pathworks client to use the <em class="emphasis">set 1077dir</em> command.</p></div> 1078<a name="INDEX-348"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>share modes = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Directs Samba to support Windows-style whole-file (deny mode) locks. 1079Do not change.</p></div> 1080<a name="INDEX-349"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>short preserve case = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES, leaves mangled 8.3-style filenames in the case sent by 1081the client. If NO, forces the case to that specified by the 1082<tt class="literal">default</tt> <tt class="literal">case</tt> option. See also 1083<tt class="literal">preserve</tt> <tt class="literal">case</tt>.</p></div> 1084<a name="INDEX-350"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>show add printer wizard = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1085</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set, tells clients that the Add Printer Wizard can be used to add 1086a Samba printer from Windows NT/2000/XP clients. See also 1087<tt class="literal">add printer command</tt>, <tt class="literal">delete 1088printer</tt> <tt class="literal">comamnd</tt>, and <tt class="literal">printer 1089admin</tt>.</p></div> 1090<a name="INDEX-351"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>shutdown script = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1091</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: command</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NONE</p><p>Specifies a command that initiates a system shutdown. The command is 1092run with the UID of the connected user. The <tt class="literal">%m</tt> 1093(message), <tt class="literal">%t</tt> (delay time), <tt class="literal">%r</tt> 1094(reboot), and <tt class="literal">%f</tt> (force) options are supported. 1095See also <tt class="literal">abort shutdown script</tt>. New in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1096<a name="INDEX-352"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>smb passwd file = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1097</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd</em></p><p>Overrides the compiled-in path to the encrypted password file. See 1098also <tt class="literal">encrypted</tt> <tt class="literal">passwords</tt> and 1099<tt class="literal">private dir</tt>.</p></div> 1100<a name="INDEX-353"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>socket address = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1101</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: IP address</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the address on which to listen for connections. Default is to 1102listen to all addresses.</p></div> 1103<a name="INDEX-354"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>socket options = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1104</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: socket option list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: TCP_NODELAY</p><p>Sets OS-specific socket options. SO_KEEPALIVE makes TCP check clients 1105every four hours to see if they are still accessible. TCP_NODELAY 1106sends even tiny packets to keep delay low. Both are recommended 1107wherever the operating system supports them.</p></div> 1108<a name="INDEX-355"/><a name="INDEX-356"/><a name="INDEX-357"/><a name="INDEX-358"/><a name="INDEX-359"/><a name="INDEX-360"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>source environment = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1109</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Causes Samba to read a list of <a name="INDEX-356"/>environment variables from a file upon 1110startup. This can be useful when setting up Samba in a 1111<a name="INDEX-357"/><a name="INDEX-358"/><a name="INDEX-359"/><a name="INDEX-360"/>clustered environment. The 1112filename can begin with a "|" 1113(pipe) character, in which case it causes Samba to run the file as a 1114command to obtain the variables.</p><p>The file must be owned by <tt class="literal">root</tt> and must not be 1115world-writable. If the filename begins with a 1116"|" character, it must point to a 1117command that is neither world-writable nor resides in a 1118world-writable directory.</p><p>The data should be in the form of lines such as 1119SAMBA_NETBIOS_NAME=<em class="replaceable">myhostname</em>. This value 1120will then be available in the <em class="filename">smb.conf</em> files as 1121%$SAMBA_NETBIOS_NAME.</p></div> 1122<a name="INDEX-361"/><a name="INDEX-362"/><a name="INDEX-363"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1123</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p><a name="INDEX-362"/><a name="INDEX-363"/>Makes 1124Samba use SSL for data exchange with some or all hosts. Requires 1125<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option.Obsolete starting with 1126Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1127<a name="INDEX-364"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl CA certDir = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1128</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/ssl/certs</em></p><p>Specifies a directory containing a file for each Certification 1129Authority (CA) that the Samba server trusts so that Samba can verify 1130client certificates. Part of SSL support. Requires 1131<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1132with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1133<a name="INDEX-365"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl CA certFile = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1134</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/ssl/certs/trustedCAs.pem</em></p><p>Specifies a file that contains information for each CA that the Samba 1135server trusts so that Samba can verify client certificates. Part of 1136SSL support. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. 1137Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1138<a name="INDEX-366"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl ciphers = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1139</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of ciphers</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies which ciphers should be offered during SSL negotiation. Not 1140recommended. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. 1141Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1142<a name="INDEX-367"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl client cert = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1143</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/ssl/certs/smbclient.pem</em></p><p>Specifies a file containing the server's SSL 1144certificate, for use by <em class="emphasis">smbclient</em> if 1145certificates are required in this environment. Requires 1146<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1147with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1148<a name="INDEX-368"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl client key = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1149</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/usr/local/ssl/private/smbclient.pem</em></p><p>Specifies a file containing the server's private SSL 1150key, for use by <em class="emphasis">smbclient</em>. Requires 1151<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1152with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1153<a name="INDEX-369"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl compatibility = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1154</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Determines whether SSLeay should be configured for bug compatibility 1155with other SSL implementations. Not recommended. Requires 1156<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1157with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1158<a name="INDEX-370"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl hosts = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1159</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Requires that SSL be used with the hosts listed. By default, if the 1160<tt class="literal">ssl</tt> option is set, the server requires SSL with 1161all hosts. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. 1162Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1163<a name="INDEX-371"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl hosts resign = host list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1164</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of hosts or networks</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Suppresses the use of SSL with the hosts listed. By default, if the 1165<tt class="literal">ssl</tt> option is set, the server requires SSL with 1166all hosts. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. 1167Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1168<a name="INDEX-372"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl require clientcert = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1169</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Requires clients to use certificates when SSL is in use. This option 1170is recommended if SSL is used. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> 1171configure option. Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1172<a name="INDEX-373"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl require servercert = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1173</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>When SSL is in use, <em class="emphasis">smbclient</em> requires servers 1174to use certificates. This option is recommended if SSL is used. 1175Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete 1176starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1177<a name="INDEX-374"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl server cert = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1178</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a file containing the server's SSL 1179certificate. Requires <tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. 1180Obsolete starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1181<a name="INDEX-375"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl server key = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1182</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a file containing the server's private SSL 1183key. If no file is specified and SSL is in use, the server looks up 1184its key in its server certificate. Requires 1185<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1186with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1187<a name="INDEX-376"/><a name="INDEX-377"/><a name="INDEX-378"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>ssl version = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1188</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: "ssl2", 1189"ssl3", 1190"ssl2or3", 1191"tls1"</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: "ssl2or3"</p><p>Defines which versions of the SSL protocol the server can use: 1192Version 2 only ("ssl2"), Version 3 1193only ("ssl3"), Version 2 or 3 1194dynamically negotiated ("ssl2or3"), 1195or Transport Layer Security 1196("tls1"). Requires 1197<tt class="literal">--with-ssl</tt> configure option. Obsolete starting 1198with Samba 3.0.<a name="INDEX-377"/><a name="INDEX-378"/></p></div> 1199<a name="INDEX-379"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>stat cache = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1200</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Makes the Samba server cache client names for faster resolution. 1201Should not be changed.</p></div> 1202<a name="INDEX-380"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>stat cache size = number </i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1203</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 50</p><p>Determines the number of client names cached for faster resolution. 1204Should not be changed.</p></div> 1205<a name="INDEX-381"/><a name="INDEX-382"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>status = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1206</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to YES, logs connections to a file (or shared memory) 1207accessible to <em class="filename">smbstatus</em>. 1208<a name="INDEX-382"/>Obsolete 1209starting with Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1210<a name="INDEX-383"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>strict allocate = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, allocates all disk blocks when creating or extending 1211the size of files, instead of using the normal sparse file allocation 1212used on Unix. This slows the server, but results in behavior that 1213matches that of Windows and helps Samba correctly report 1214"out of quota" messages.</p></div> 1215<a name="INDEX-384"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>strict locking = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, checks locks on every access, not just on demand and 1216at open time. Not recommended.</p></div> 1217<a name="INDEX-385"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>strict sync = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, Samba synchronizes to disk whenever the client sets 1218the sync bit in a packet. If set to NO, Samba flushes data to disk 1219whenever buffers fill. Defaults to NO because Windows 98 Explorer 1220sets the bit (incorrectly) in all packets.</p></div> 1221<a name="INDEX-386"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>strip dot = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1222</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Removes trailing dots from filenames. Dysfunctional in Samba 2.2; use 1223<tt class="literal">mangled</tt> <tt class="literal">map</tt> instead.</p></div> 1224<a name="INDEX-387"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>sync always = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, Samba forces the data to disk through <em class="emphasis">fsync</em> 1225(3) after every write. Avoid except to debug crashing 1226servers.</p></div> 1227<a name="INDEX-388"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>syslog = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1228</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 1</p><p>Sets the level of Samba log messages to send to 1229<em class="filename">syslog</em>. Higher is more verbose. The 1230<em class="filename">syslog.conf</em> file must have suitable logging 1231enabled.</p></div> 1232<a name="INDEX-389"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>syslog only = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1233</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, logs only to <em class="emphasis">syslog</em> instead of 1234the standard Samba log files.</p></div> 1235<a name="INDEX-390"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>template homedir = path</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1236</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: /home/<tt class="literal">%D</tt>/<tt class="literal">%U</tt></p><p>Sets the home directory for Unix login sessions for users 1237authenticated through winbind. <tt class="literal">%D</tt> will be replaced 1238with user's domain name; <tt class="literal">%U</tt> by 1239the username.</p></div> 1240<a name="INDEX-391"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>template shell = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1241</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to shell</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: <em class="filename">/bin/false</em></p><p>Sets the shell for Unix login sessions for users authenticated 1242through winbind. The default value prevents all Windows domain user 1243logins.</p></div> 1244<a name="INDEX-392"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>time offset = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1245</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of minutes</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Sets the number of minutes to add to the system time-zone 1246calculation. Provided to fix a client daylight-savings bug. Not 1247recommended.</p></div> 1248<a name="INDEX-393"/><a name="INDEX-394"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>time server = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1249</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, <em class="emphasis">nmbd</em><a name="INDEX-394"/> 1250advertises itself as a provider of SMB time service to clients. This 1251option only affects whether the time service is advertised. It does 1252not enable or disable time service.</p></div> 1253<a name="INDEX-395"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>timestamp logs = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1254</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">debug</tt> <tt class="literal">timestamp</tt>.</p></div> 1255<a name="INDEX-396"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>total print jobs = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1256</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (no limit)</p><p>Limits total number of current print jobs on server. See also 1257<tt class="literal">max print jobs</tt>.</p></div> 1258<a name="INDEX-397"/><a name="INDEX-398"/><a name="INDEX-399"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>unix extensions = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1259</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, supports 1260<a name="INDEX-398"/>CIFS Unix extensions, providing 1261better filesystem support for Unix clients. <a name="INDEX-399"/>Obsolete in Samba 3.0, which always 1262offers support.</p></div> 1263<a name="INDEX-400"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>unix password sync = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1264</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, attempts to change the user's Unix 1265password whenever the user changes her SMB password. Used to ease 1266synchronization of Unix and Microsoft password databases. See also 1267<tt class="literal">password program</tt> and <tt class="literal">passwd</tt> 1268<tt class="literal">chat</tt>.</p></div> 1269<a name="INDEX-401"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>update encrypted = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1270</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Updates the encrypted password file when a user logs on with an 1271unencrypted password. Provided to ease conversion from unencrypted to 1272encrypted passwords.</p></div> 1273<a name="INDEX-402"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>use client driver = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1274</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>Used for avoiding <tt class="literal">Access Denied; Unable to connect</tt> 1275messages when connecting to a Samba printer from Windows NT/2000/XP 1276clients. Necessary only when the client has a local printer driver 1277for the Samba printer.</p></div> 1278<a name="INDEX-403"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>use mmap = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1279</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: varies</p><p>Tells Samba whether the <em class="emphasis">mmap( )</em> system call 1280works correctly on the Samba host. Default is automatically set 1281correctly. Do not change.</p></div> 1282<a name="INDEX-404"/><a name="INDEX-405"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>use rhosts = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1283</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, users' <em class="filename">~/.rhosts</em> 1284files will be used to identify systems from which users can connect 1285without providing a password. Discouraged. <a name="INDEX-405"/>Obsolete 1286in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1287<a name="INDEX-406"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>use sendfile = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If yes, Samba will perform some data transfers for exclusively 1288oplocked files using the <em class="emphasis">sendfile( )</em> system 1289call, which results in significant performance improvements. This is 1290available if Samba has been configured with the 1291<tt class="literal">--with-sendfile-support</tt> option. This is an 1292experimental option and is new in Samba 2.2.5.</p></div> 1293<a name="INDEX-407"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>user = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">username</tt>.</p></div> 1294<a name="INDEX-408"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>username = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets a list of users that are tried when logging on with share-level 1295security in effect. Also called <tt class="literal">user</tt> or 1296<tt class="literal">users</tt>. Discouraged. Use <tt class="literal">NET</tt> 1297<tt class="literal">USE</tt> 1298<tt class="literal">\\</tt><em class="replaceable">server</em><tt class="literal">\</tt><em class="replaceable">share 1299</em><tt class="literal">%</tt><em class="replaceable">user</em> 1300from the client instead.</p></div> 1301<a name="INDEX-409"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>username level = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1302</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0</p><p>Specifies the number of uppercase-letter permutations allowed to 1303match Unix usernames. A workaround for Windows' 1304single-case usernames. Use is discouraged.</p></div> 1305<a name="INDEX-410"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>username map = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1306</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of file</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Names a file of Unix-to-Windows name pairs; used to map different 1307spellings of account names and Windows usernames longer than eight 1308characters.</p></div> 1309<a name="INDEX-411"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>users = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">username</tt>.</p></div> 1310<a name="INDEX-412"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>utmp = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1311</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>This is available if Samba has been configured with the 1312<tt class="literal">--with-utmp</tt> option. If set, Samba adds 1313<em class="emphasis">utmp</em>/<em class="emphasis">utmpx</em> records whenever 1314a connection is made to a Samba server. Sites can use this option to 1315record each connection to a Samba share as a system login.</p></div> 1316<a name="INDEX-413"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>utmp directory = directory</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1317</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: name of directory</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>This is available if Samba has been configured with the 1318<tt class="literal">--with-utmp</tt> option. If this option and 1319<tt class="literal">utmp</tt> are set, Samba will look in the specified 1320directory rather than the default system directory for 1321<em class="filename">utmp</em>/<em class="filename">utmpx</em> files.</p></div> 1322<a name="INDEX-414"/><a name="INDEX-415"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>valid chars = list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: list of numeric values</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Adds national characters to a character set map. See also 1323<tt class="literal">client</tt> <tt class="literal">code</tt> 1324<tt class="literal">page</tt>. <a name="INDEX-415"/>Obsolete in Samba 3.0.</p></div> 1325<a name="INDEX-416"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>valid users = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL (allows everyone)</p><p>Specifies a list of users that can connect to a share. See also 1326<tt class="literal">invalid users</tt>.</p></div> 1327<a name="INDEX-417"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>veto files = slash-separated list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: slash-separated list of filenames</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of files that the client will not see when listing a 1328directory's contents. See also 1329<tt class="literal">delete</tt> <tt class="literal">veto</tt> 1330<tt class="literal">files</tt> and <tt class="literal">hide files</tt>.</p></div> 1331<a name="INDEX-418"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>veto oplock files = slash-separated list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: slash-separated list of filenames</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of files not to oplock (and cache on clients). See 1332also <tt class="literal">oplocks</tt> and <tt class="literal">fake</tt> 1333<tt class="literal">oplocks</tt>.</p></div> 1334<a name="INDEX-419"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>vfs object = filename</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to shared library</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies the shared library to use for Samba's 1335Virtual File System (VFS). Requires the <tt class="literal">--with-vfs</tt> 1336configure option.</p></div> 1337<a name="INDEX-420"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>vfs options = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: space-separated list of options</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies parameters to the VFS. Requires the 1338<tt class="literal">--with-vfs</tt> configure option. See <tt class="literal">vfs 1339object</tt>.</p></div> 1340<a name="INDEX-421"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>volume = string</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: share name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the volume label of a disk share. Especially useful with shared 1341CD-ROMs.</p></div> 1342<a name="INDEX-422"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>wide links = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set, Samba follows symlinks out of the disk share. See also the 1343<tt class="literal">root</tt> <tt class="literal">dir</tt> and 1344<tt class="literal">follow</tt> <tt class="literal">symlinks</tt> options.</p></div> 1345<a name="INDEX-423"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind cache time = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1346</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: number of seconds</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 15</p><p>Sets the amount of time that the <em class="emphasis">winbindd</em> daemon 1347caches user and group information.</p></div> 1348<a name="INDEX-424"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind enum users = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1349</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES/NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to NO, enumeration of users is suppressed by winbind. 1350Discouraged.</p></div> 1351<a name="INDEX-425"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind enum groups = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1352</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES/NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>If set to NO, enumeration of groups is suppressed by winbind. 1353Discouraged.</p></div> 1354<a name="INDEX-426"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind gid = numeric range</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1355</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer-integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies the group ID range winbind uses for Windows NT domain users 1356connecting to Samba.</p></div> 1357<a name="INDEX-427"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind separator = character</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1358</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: ASCII character</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: \</p><p>Specifies the character winbind uses to separate a domain name and 1359username.</p></div> 1360<a name="INDEX-428"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>winbind uid = numeric range</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1361</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: integer-integer</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies the user ID range winbind will use for Windows NT domain 1362users connecting to Samba.</p></div> 1363<a name="INDEX-429"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>wins hook = command</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1364</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: full path to script</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a command to run whenever the WINS server updates its 1365database. Allows WINS to be synchronized with DNS or other services. 1366The command is passed one of the arguments <tt class="literal">add</tt>, 1367<tt class="literal">delete</tt>, or <tt class="literal">refresh</tt>, followed by 1368the NetBIOS name, the name type (two hexadecimal digits), the TTL in 1369seconds, and the IP addresses corresponding to the NetBIOS name. 1370Requires <tt class="literal">wins</tt> <tt class="literal">service</tt> 1371<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">YES</tt>.</p></div> 1372<a name="INDEX-430"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>wins proxy = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1373</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, <em class="emphasis">nmbd</em> proxies resolution requests 1374to WINS servers on behalf of old clients, which use broadcasts. The 1375WINS server is typically on another subnet.</p></div> 1376<a name="INDEX-431"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>wins server = value</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1377</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: hostname or IP address</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Sets the DNS name or IP address of the WINS server.</p></div> 1378<a name="INDEX-432"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>wins support = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1379</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NO</p><p>If set to YES, activates the WINS service. The 1380<tt class="literal">wins</tt> <tt class="literal">server</tt> option must not be 1381set if <tt class="literal">wins</tt> <tt class="literal">support</tt> 1382<tt class="literal">=</tt> <tt class="literal">YES</tt>.</p></div> 1383<a name="INDEX-433"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>workgroup = name</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1384</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: workgroup name</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: compiled-in</p><p>Sets the workgroup or domain to which the Samba server belongs. 1385Overrides the compiled-in default of WORKGROUP. Choosing a name other 1386than WORKGROUP is highly recommended.</p></div> 1387<a name="INDEX-434"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>writable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Antonym for <tt class="literal">read</tt> <tt class="literal">only</tt>; 1388<tt class="literal">writeable</tt> and <tt class="literal">write</tt> 1389<tt class="literal">ok</tt> are synonyms.</p></div> 1390<a name="INDEX-435"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>writeable = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Antonym for <tt class="literal">read</tt> <tt class="literal">only</tt>; 1391<tt class="literal">writable</tt> and <tt class="literal">write</tt> 1392<tt class="literal">ok</tt> are synonyms.</p></div> 1393<a name="INDEX-436"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>write cache size = number</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: decimal number of bytes</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: 0 (disabled)</p><p>Allocates a write buffer of the specified size in which Samba 1394accumulates data before a write to disk. This option can be used to 1395ensure that each write has the optimal size for a given filesystem. 1396It is typically used with RAID drives, which have a preferred write 1397size, and with systems that have large memory and slow disks.</p></div> 1398<a name="INDEX-437"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>write list = user list</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: user list</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: NULL</p><p>Specifies a list of users that are given read/write access to a 1399read-only share. See also <tt class="literal">read</tt> 1400<tt class="literal">list</tt>.</p></div> 1401<a name="INDEX-438"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>write ok = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i></i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Synonym for <tt class="literal">writable</tt>.</p></div> 1402<a name="INDEX-439"/><div class="refentry"><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"><font size="+1"><b><i>write raw = boolean</i></b></font></td><td align="right"><i>[global] 1403</i></td></tr></table><hr width="515" size="3" noshade="true" align="left" color="black"/><table width="515" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"/></tr></table><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Allowable values</b>: YES, NO</p><p><b class="emphasis-bold">Default</b>: YES</p><p>Allows fast-streaming writes over TCP using 64KB buffers. Recommended.</p></div> 1404 1405 1406 1407<div class="sect1"><a name="samba2-APP-B-SECT-2"/> 1408 1409<h2 class="head1">Glossary of Configuration Value Types</h2> 1410 1411<dl> 1412<dt><b><a name="INDEX-440"/><em class="emphasis">boolean</em></b></dt> 1413<dd> 1414<p>One of two values, either YES or NO.</p> 1415</dd> 1416 1417 1418 1419<dt><b>character</b></dt> 1420<dd> 1421<p>A single ASCII character.</p> 1422</dd> 1423 1424 1425 1426<dt><b>command</b></dt> 1427<dd> 1428<p>A Unix script or compiled program, with an absolute path specified 1429for the executable and parameters.</p> 1430</dd> 1431 1432 1433 1434<dt><b>directory</b></dt> 1435<dd> 1436<p>An absolute path specification to a directory. For example:</p> 1437 1438<blockquote><pre class="code">/usr/local/samba/lib</pre></blockquote> 1439</dd> 1440 1441</dl> 1442 1443<dl> 1444<dt><b>filename</b></dt> 1445<dd> 1446<p>An absolute path specification to a file. For example:</p> 1447 1448<blockquote><pre class="code">/etc/printcap</pre></blockquote> 1449</dd> 1450 1451 1452<dt><b>host list</b></dt> 1453<dd> 1454<p>A list of hosts. Allows IP addresses, address masks, domain names, 1455ALL, and EXCEPT.</p> 1456</dd> 1457 1458 1459 1460<dt><b>interface list</b></dt> 1461<dd> 1462<p>A list of interfaces, in either address/netmask or address/n-bits 1463format. For example:</p> 1464 1465 1466<blockquote><pre class="code">192.168.2.10/255.255.255.0, 192.168.2.10/24</pre></blockquote> 1467</dd> 1468 1469 1470<dt><b>map list</b></dt> 1471<dd> 1472<p>A list of filename remapping strings such as 1473<tt class="literal">(*.html</tt> <tt class="literal">*.htm)</tt>.</p> 1474</dd> 1475 1476 1477 1478<dt><b>name</b></dt> 1479<dd> 1480<p>A single name of a type of object, as specified in the 1481option's description.</p> 1482</dd> 1483 1484 1485 1486<dt><b>number</b></dt> 1487<dd> 1488<p>A positive integer.</p> 1489</dd> 1490 1491 1492 1493<dt><b>numeric range</b></dt> 1494<dd> 1495<p>Two numbers separated by a dash, specifying a minimum and a maximum 1496value. For example:</p> 1497 1498 1499<blockquote><pre class="code">100-250</pre></blockquote> 1500</dd> 1501 1502 1503<dt><b>remote list</b></dt> 1504<dd> 1505<p>A list of subnet-broadcast-address/workgroup pairs. For example:</p> 1506 1507<blockquote><pre class="code">192.168.2.255/SERVERS 192.168.4.255/STAFF</pre></blockquote> 1508</dd> 1509 1510 1511<dt><b>service (share) list</b></dt> 1512<dd> 1513<p>A list of service (share) names, without the enclosing parentheses.</p> 1514</dd> 1515 1516 1517 1518<dt><b>slash-separated list</b></dt> 1519<dd> 1520<p>A list of filenames, separated by 1521"/" characters to allow embedded 1522spaces. For example:</p> 1523 1524 1525<blockquote><pre class="code">/.*/My Documents/*.doc/</pre></blockquote> 1526</dd> 1527 1528 1529<dt><b>string</b></dt> 1530<dd> 1531<p>One line of arbitrary text.</p> 1532</dd> 1533 1534 1535 1536<dt><b>user list</b></dt> 1537<dd> 1538<p>A list of usernames and/or group names. 1539<tt class="literal">@</tt><em class="replaceable">group_name</em> includes 1540whomever is in the NIS netgroup 1541<em class="replaceable">group_name</em>, if one exists, or otherwise 1542whomever is in the Unix group <em class="replaceable">group_name</em>. 1543In addition, 1544<tt class="literal">+</tt><em class="replaceable">group_name</em> is a Unix 1545group, <tt class="literal">&</tt><em class="replaceable">group_name</em> 1546is an NIS netgroup, and <tt class="literal">&+</tt> and 1547<tt class="literal">+&</tt> cause an ordered search of both Unix and 1548NIS groups.</p> 1549</dd> 1550 1551 1552 1553<dt><b>value</b></dt> 1554<dd> 1555<p>A value of some miscellaneous type, as specified in the 1556option's description.<a name="INDEX-441"/></p> 1557</dd> 1558 1559</dl> 1560 1561 1562</div> 1563 1564 1565 1566<div class="sect1"><a name="samba2-APP-B-SECT-3"/> 1567 1568<h2 class="head1">Configuration File Variables</h2> 1569 1570<p><a href="appb.html#samba2-APP-B-TABLE-1">Table B-1</a> lists the Samba configuration file 1571variables.</p> 1572 1573<a name="samba2-APP-B-TABLE-1"/><h4 class="head4">Table B-1. Configuration file variables</h4><table border="1"> 1574 1575 1576 1577<tr> 1578<th> 1579<p>Name</p> 1580</th> 1581<th> 1582<p>Meaning</p> 1583</th> 1584</tr> 1585 1586 1587<tr> 1588<td> 1589<p><tt class="literal">%a</tt></p> 1590</td> 1591<td> 1592<p>Client's architecture (Samba, WfWg, WinNT, Win95, or 1593UNKNOWN)</p> 1594</td> 1595</tr> 1596<tr> 1597<td> 1598<p><tt class="literal">%d</tt></p> 1599</td> 1600<td> 1601<p>Current server process's process ID</p> 1602</td> 1603</tr> 1604<tr> 1605<td> 1606<p><tt class="literal">%D</tt></p> 1607</td> 1608<td> 1609<p>User's Windows NT Domain</p> 1610</td> 1611</tr> 1612<tr> 1613<td> 1614<p><tt class="literal">%f</tt></p> 1615</td> 1616<td> 1617<p>Printer spool file as a relative path (printing only)</p> 1618</td> 1619</tr> 1620<tr> 1621<td> 1622<p><tt class="literal">%f</tt></p> 1623</td> 1624<td> 1625<p>User from which a message was sent (messages only)</p> 1626</td> 1627</tr> 1628<tr> 1629<td> 1630<p><tt class="literal">%G</tt></p> 1631</td> 1632<td> 1633<p>Primary group name of <tt class="literal">%U</tt> (requested username)</p> 1634</td> 1635</tr> 1636<tr> 1637<td> 1638<p><tt class="literal">%g</tt></p> 1639</td> 1640<td> 1641<p>Primary group name of <tt class="literal">%u</tt> (actual username)</p> 1642</td> 1643</tr> 1644<tr> 1645<td> 1646<p><tt class="literal">%H</tt></p> 1647</td> 1648<td> 1649<p>Home directory of <tt class="literal">%u</tt> (actual username)</p> 1650</td> 1651</tr> 1652<tr> 1653<td> 1654<p><tt class="literal">%h</tt></p> 1655</td> 1656<td> 1657<p>Samba server's (Internet) hostname</p> 1658</td> 1659</tr> 1660<tr> 1661<td> 1662<p><tt class="literal">%I</tt></p> 1663</td> 1664<td> 1665<p>Client's IP address</p> 1666</td> 1667</tr> 1668<tr> 1669<td> 1670<p><tt class="literal">%j</tt></p> 1671</td> 1672<td> 1673<p>Print job number (printing only)</p> 1674</td> 1675</tr> 1676<tr> 1677<td> 1678<p><tt class="literal">%L</tt></p> 1679</td> 1680<td> 1681<p>Samba server's NetBIOS name (virtual servers have 1682multiple names)</p> 1683</td> 1684</tr> 1685<tr> 1686<td> 1687<p><tt class="literal">%M</tt></p> 1688</td> 1689<td> 1690<p>Client's (Internet) hostname</p> 1691</td> 1692</tr> 1693<tr> 1694<td> 1695<p><tt class="literal">%m</tt></p> 1696</td> 1697<td> 1698<p>Client's NetBIOS name</p> 1699</td> 1700</tr> 1701<tr> 1702<td> 1703<p><tt class="literal">%N</tt></p> 1704</td> 1705<td> 1706<p>Name of the NIS home directory server (without NIS, same as 1707<tt class="literal">%L</tt>)</p> 1708</td> 1709</tr> 1710<tr> 1711<td> 1712<p><tt class="literal">%n</tt></p> 1713</td> 1714<td> 1715<p>New password (password change only)</p> 1716</td> 1717</tr> 1718<tr> 1719<td> 1720<p><tt class="literal">%o</tt></p> 1721</td> 1722<td> 1723<p>Old password (password change only)</p> 1724</td> 1725</tr> 1726<tr> 1727<td> 1728<p><tt class="literal">%P</tt></p> 1729</td> 1730<td> 1731<p>Current share's root directory (actual)</p> 1732</td> 1733</tr> 1734<tr> 1735<td> 1736<p><tt class="literal">%p</tt></p> 1737</td> 1738<td> 1739<p>Current share's root directory (in an NIS homedir 1740map)</p> 1741</td> 1742</tr> 1743<tr> 1744<td> 1745<p><tt class="literal">%p</tt></p> 1746</td> 1747<td> 1748<p>Print filename (printing only)</p> 1749</td> 1750</tr> 1751<tr> 1752<td> 1753<p><tt class="literal">%R</tt></p> 1754</td> 1755<td> 1756<p>Protocol level in use (CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2, or NT1)</p> 1757</td> 1758</tr> 1759<tr> 1760<td> 1761<p><tt class="literal">%S</tt></p> 1762</td> 1763<td> 1764<p>Current share's name</p> 1765</td> 1766</tr> 1767<tr> 1768<td> 1769<p><tt class="literal">%s</tt></p> 1770</td> 1771<td> 1772<p>Name of the file in which the message resides (messages only)</p> 1773</td> 1774</tr> 1775<tr> 1776<td> 1777<p><tt class="literal">%s</tt></p> 1778</td> 1779<td> 1780<p>Printer spool filename (printing only)</p> 1781</td> 1782</tr> 1783<tr> 1784<td> 1785<p><tt class="literal">%T</tt></p> 1786</td> 1787<td> 1788<p>Current date and time</p> 1789</td> 1790</tr> 1791<tr> 1792<td> 1793<p><tt class="literal">%t</tt></p> 1794</td> 1795<td> 1796<p>Destination system (messages only)</p> 1797</td> 1798</tr> 1799<tr> 1800<td> 1801<p><tt class="literal">%U</tt></p> 1802</td> 1803<td> 1804<p>Requested username for current share</p> 1805</td> 1806</tr> 1807<tr> 1808<td> 1809<p><tt class="literal">%u</tt></p> 1810</td> 1811<td> 1812<p>Current share's username</p> 1813</td> 1814</tr> 1815<tr> 1816<td> 1817<p><tt class="literal">%v</tt></p> 1818</td> 1819<td> 1820<p>Samba version</p> 1821</td> 1822</tr> 1823<tr> 1824<td> 1825<p>%$<em class="replaceable">name</em></p> 1826</td> 1827<td> 1828<p>Value of environment variable <em class="replaceable">name</em></p> 1829</td> 1830</tr> 1831 1832</table> 1833 1834 1835</div> 1836 1837 1838<hr/><h4 class="head4"><a href="toc.html">TOC</a></h4> 1839 1840</body></html> 1841