[Samba] Can I Include a directory to smb.conf?

[Özkan Göksu]

Hello Marc

Thank you for answer. Have a good day.

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2017-11-21 18:16 GMT+02:00 Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>:

> Hello Özkan,
>
> Am 21.11.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Özkan Göksu via samba:
> > I want to include a directory to my smb.conf and i want to create each
> > share under that directory.
> > Can I do that?
>
> Unfortunately not. The "include" parameter neither supports directory
> paths nor wildcards.
>
> It supports substitutions, but unfortunately, the %S (name of ths
> current service, which would be the share name in your case), is
> explicitely excluded. See the "include" parameter description in the
> smb.conf man page.
>
> However, you can of course add include statements for each new config
> file you create.
>
> As a workaround, you can write a short shell script that generates the
> include statements, and run this script from your init-script/systemd
> service before smbd|nmbd|winbindd|samba starts. However, this can delay
> the start/reload if you have a lot of config files to process.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>