Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007, Installation Manual

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workgroup = TUX-NET
This line assigns the Samba server to a workgroup. Replace
TUX-NET
with an
appropriate workgroup of your networking environment. Your Samba server appears
under its DNS name unless this name has been assigned to any other machine in
the network. If the DNS name is not available, set the server name using
netbiosname=MYNAME
. See
mansmb.conf
for more details about this param-
eter.
os level = 2
This parameter triggers whether your Samba server tries to become LMB (local
master browser) for its workgroup. Choose a very low value to spare the existing
Windows network from any disturbances caused by a misconfigured Samba server.
More information about this important topic can be found in the files
BROWSING.txt
and
BROWSING-Config.txt
under the
textdocs
subdi-
rectory of the package documentation.
If no other SMB server is present in your network (such as a Windows NT or 2000
server) and you want the Samba server to keep a list of all systems present in the
local environment, set the
os level
to a higher value (for example,
65
). Your
Samba server is then chosen as LMB for your local network.
When changing this setting, consider carefully how this could affect an existing
Windows network environment. First test the changes in an isolated network or at
a noncritical time of day.
wins support and wins server
To integrate your Samba server into an existing Windows network with an active
WINS server, enable the
wins server
option and set its value to the IP address
of that WINS server.
If your Windows machines are connected to separate subnets and should still be
aware of each other, you need to set up a WINS server. To turn a Samba server
into such a WINS server, set the option
wins support = Yes
. Make sure that
only one Samba server of the network has this setting enabled. The options
wins
server
and
wins support
must never be enabled at the same time in your
smb.conf
file.
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