[Samba] using include directives for shares?

[Juan Asensio Sánchez]

include = /path/to/file

(note "=")

2010/9/28 Roel van Meer <rolek at bokxing.nl>

> 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
>
>
>
>
>>
>> /etc/samba/smb.conf contains:
>>
>>
>> [global]
>>
>>               <various global parameters>
>>
>>
>> include /etc/samba/smb.conf.local
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Using CentOS 5, latest updates installed, samba RPM version
>> samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1
>>
>>
>> ====================
>>
>> Scott Stone <scott_stone at trendmicro.com>
>>
>> Lead Developer, DCS-RD
>>
>> Trend Micro, Inc. http://www.trendmicro.com
>>
>>
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