Summary
If you’ve been making changes to your Samba
server’s configuration as you’ve
read this chapter, it should now be functioning in a rather minimal
way on your network. You should understand the basics of the Samba
configuration file format, and you should be able to make your server
appear in clients’ SMB/CIFS browsers. If at least
one share is defined (as is common in sample
smb.conf files), you should also be able to log
on to the Samba server from clients, thanks to appropriate settings
for the password options on both client and server. Of course, these
tasks aren’t enough; in most cases, you run a Samba
server in order to share files or printers, which means you need to
be able to define appropriate shares. This task is the topic of Chapter 4.
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