[Samba] using include directives for shares?

[Roel van Meer]

scott_stone at trendmicro.com writes:

> From the smb.conf manpage, it says that an 'include <file>' will include 
> that file into smb.conf as if it were typed in place.

Yes, that should work.

Some things you want to look at:
- Is the include file world readable?
- Does the output of 'testparm -sv' give any clues?

Regards,

roel


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> /etc/samba/smb.conf contains:
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> [global]
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>                <various global parameters>
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> include /etc/samba/smb.conf.local
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> and then /etc/samba/smb.conf.local contains my share definitions.  I'm
> doing it this way because I'm using puppet to manage the global parameters
> on my various file servers, but each individual file server may have a
> different local configuration that operations guys without access to the
> puppetmaster might need to change.  It seems to me that this should be
> supported as I'm doing it, but it appears not - the shares defined in
> smb.conf.local aren't getting served.  What am I doing wrong, or am I
> running up against a known limitation?
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> Using CentOS 5, latest updates installed, samba RPM version samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1
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> ====================
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> Scott Stone <scott_stone at trendmicro.com>
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> Lead Developer, DCS-RD
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> Trend Micro, Inc. http://www.trendmicro.com
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