[Samba] Per-alias shares?

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 07:00, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to have multiple virtual
> servers on the same machine, each server having different shares.
> Barring running multiple smbd processes, I don't see a way.  Is there one?

Yes! It can be done.

You must create one master server configuration. It will create the master 
server as seen in the Windows networking browser. In its smb.conf file you 
will have something like:

[global]
...
workgroup = BIGBIRDS
netbios name = ALBATROS
netbios aliases = CRANE MUGABIRD
...
include = /etc/samba/smb.%L.conf


Then for each alias (CRANE and MUGABIRD) you would create 
an /etc/samba/smb.'name'.conf file like:

/etc/samba/smb.crane.conf:
---------------------------------
[global]
netbios name = CRANE
....

[share1]
...


/etc/samba.smb.mugabird.conf:
-------------------------------------
[global]
...
netbios name = MUGABIRD
...

[share2]
...


I hope that is clear enough.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
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