[Samba] Fwd: Can't understand differences between testparm output and smb.conf

Andres Tarallo atarallo at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 16:43:55 UTC 2016


2016-01-21 12:28 GMT-03:00 Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org>:

> On 21/01/16 15:10, Andres Tarallo wrote:
>
>> I'm running  Samba 4.3.3-3.1 on SLES 11. I'm debugging a configuration as
>> Domain member.
>>
>> I've configured some read only shares. This is my configuration in
>> smb.conf
>>
>> [to_company]
>>          comment = Tray to company
>>          path = /home/company/interfaces/bandejas/to_company
>>          browseable = yes
>>          guest ok = yes
>>          writeable = no
>>          force user = company
>>          force group = cust_mis
>>
>> When I run testparm I get:
>>
>> [to_company]
>>          comment = Tray to company
>>          path = /home/company/interfaces/bandejas/to_company
>>          force user = company
>>          force group = cust_mis
>>          group = cust_mis
>>          guest ok = Yes
>>
>> Any ideas will be appreciated.
>>
>> Andrés
>>
>
> Fairly obvious really, 'browseable = yes' & 'writeable = no' are both
> default values and as such are not shown by 'testparm', you could use '-v'
> , this will show them (along with every other default value).
>
> Rowland
>
> As you suggested I runed testparm with -v parameter, same result. I also
tested with --verbose, same result.

As I understand I can omit both browseable= yes and writeable = no (or read
only = yes). I want my shares to be read only and accessible to anyone,
without need of user authentication.

Andrés


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