For example, a Class C network address may appear as:
192.168.24.11/255.255.255.0
Security Options
Of the security options settings, the first (Security) is the most important one to get right. It defines
the type of security used to give access to the shared file systems and printers to the client computers.
(To see some of the fields described here, you need to click the Advanced view.)
Security??”Sets how password and user information is transferred to the Samba server
from the client computer. As noted earlier, it??™s important to get this value right. Samba
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versions 2.0 and later have a different default value for security (security=user) than
the earlier versions of Samba do (security=share). If you are coming from an earlier
version of Samba and clients are failing to access your server, this setting is a good place
to start. Here are your options:
user??”The most common type of security used to share files and printers among
Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP clients. It is the default set with Samba in the current
release. This setting is appropriate if users are doing a lot of file sharing (as opposed to a
Samba server used mostly as a print server). It requires that a user provide a username/
password before using the server.
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