In the case of share security, the user is assigned a guest account (the nobody user account
by default).
If the guest account value isn??™t set, Samba goes through a fairly complex set of rules to determine
which user account to use. The result is that it can be hard to ensure which user permissions will be
assigned in each case. That??™s why user security is recommended if you want to provide more specific
user access to your Samba server.
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If Samba is acting as a domain master browser, Samba should use a WINS server to help
browse clients resolve the names from this list.
Samba can be used as a WINS server, although it can also rely on other types of operating
systems to provide that service.
There should be only one domain master browser for each workgroup. Don??™t use Samba
as a domain master for a workgroup with the same name as an NT domain.
If you are working in an environment that has a mix of Samba and Windows NT servers, use an
NT server as your WINS server. If Samba is your only file server, choose a single Samba server
(nmbd daemon) to supply the WINS services.
A WINS server is basically a name server for NetBIOS names. It provides the same
service that a DNS server does with TCP/IP domain names: It can translate names into
addresses.
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