[ale] preferred Samba admin tool

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 21:24 -0400, Björn Gustafsson wrote:
> > I'm looking to install Samba at home for the first time in a while,
> > and I'm wondering what's a good tool these days to manage a Samba 3
> > server.  There are several options available in the Ubuntu repos, but
> > none of them stand out at first glance.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
>
> For the servers that I manage, I currently tackle the configuration by
> hand.  For the most part, once it's set, it doesn't need modification
> unless there is a problem.
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that it's a configuration file that you
> will rather infrequently modify, but it _is_ read quite frequently by
> Samba.  So what I do is keep a commented version of the file with all my
> explicit configuration in a single file, smb.conf.master, and then I use
> the testparm tool to generate an efficient configuration file for smb to
> parse.  You can do this by using the following command in the directory
> where Samba expects to find its configuration:
>
>  $ sudo testparm -s smb.conf.master > smb.conf
>
> This will result in a much smaller, comment-free smb.conf where any
> values that are set to their default values will also be absent.  You
> can force testparm to output all implicit/default configuration with the
> -v parameter, but you shouldn't need to do that; if you need a setting
> to be set explicitly, just use testparm every time you upgrade Samba and
> anything that is no longer the default will then be included in the
> file.
>

That is a good tip! Thanks :-)

>
>        --- Mike
>
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