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Samba/iX Services

Samba/iX Conﬁguration File Options

Default: guest only = no

create mode The “create mode” is used to deﬁne the permission used

by share services. This option sets an octal value

representing the ﬁle permissions available to a ﬁle

created by Samba/iX.

Example: create mode = 0744

The value of 0744 causes the group and other write and

execute bit to be removed from a ﬁle created by Samba.

read only Example: read only = yes

Default: read only = yes

write ok The read only = yes is identical to write ok = no.

If write ok is true, clients will be granted read/write

access to a share. The same effect can be achieved by

setting read only to false.

Example: write ok = no

Default: write ok = no

Sample Conﬁguration File — samp-smb.conf

When you want to use Samba/iX, you should copy the Samba/iX sample

conﬁguration ﬁle to /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf and adjust

this ﬁle as needed. The sample conﬁguration ﬁle samp-smb.conf

resides in the /usr/local/samba/lib directory. Please refer to

Appendix A, “Samba/iX Sample Comﬁguration File.”

Conﬁguring the Shares for File Sharing

The PCs can access the server side ﬁlespaces using Samba/iX.

Whenever the clients want to connect to the server, the server side

validates the username and password which are sent by the client and

grants access to the requests share if it is appropriate.

You can conﬁgure the ﬁle service with guest access and the Samba/iX

server can grant to the guest users without a validated user ID and

password.

Share level security is the default security level in Samba/iX. The

following example shows the conﬁguration steps you can use to

conﬁgure with

[global] and [service] section with security = share:

1. Add in the

[global] section the following parameter: security =

2. To add a share, the entries can be given in the example below:

[sample shares]

comment = shared space