run scripts on samba server

[Charlie Brady]

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Christoph Müller wrote:

> I have a network with Win95 clients and a samba-server 1.9.18p3 on Linux
> 2.033. Linux is only used as serversystem, clientusers are nonfamiliar
> with Linux. 
> 
> Sometimes it would be usefull, to start a program or script on the
> server from the client. This can be done via telnet, but I'd like to
> know if there is some sort of call implemented in samba to start a
> script on the server without login into Linux. Before I used samba, I
> had a dosbased serversystem where I could open a file on the server with
> a certain open-modus and the file would then be executed on the server.
> This is aproximately what I'm thinking about. 
> 
> Any hints?

Check out "magic script" in the smb.conf man page.

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