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Samba/iX Services

Samba/iX Conﬁguration File Options

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

guest ok = no

write ok = yes

path = /sample/test

3. Add a username mapping in “user.map” ﬁle. For example:

mgr.sample = pcusername

4. When you connect a share from a PC, the password format that you

enter from a PC should be userpassword, acctpassword.

NOTE For accessing share/user security modes, both SAMBA account and

MGR.SAMBA user should have PM capabilities.

Conﬁguring a Printer Section for Printer Sharing

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

printer sharing the client creates a ﬁle on the server directory

associated with the printer, and then lets the server process trigger a

conﬁgurable command to push the ﬁle into the MPE spooler.

The

[printers] section works in conjunction with the printcap ﬁle and

allows to conﬁgure a large number of printer shares without having to

add separate detailed sections for each of them. The printer names and

option aliases are listed in the printcap ﬁle.

Here is an sample example of printer names in the samp-printcap ﬁle

which resides in /usr/local/samba/lib: