43.12. Editing Share Defaults

As the previous few sections in this chapter have mentioned, the Samba configuration allows you to define defaults that apply to all shares, unless specifically overridden. This can be done by clicking on either the File Share Defaults or Printer Share Defaults icon on the main page, editing the contents of the form that appears, and hitting Save. Most of the options in this form, however, are not particularly useful to set globally, except maybe Available? and Browseable?.

More usefully, you can click on one of the icons on the defaults page and change settings that will apply to all file or printer shares. In the case of the Security and Access Control icon (which appears on both pages), global defaults that you ...

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