wow, not a single taker on this one !!!
hi all
I have a samba server acting as a domain member server providing file/print services to our SME
As i want to provide users with a list of available printers for installation, i need to give them a win32 shortcut to "\\samba-server\" so they can see the available printers and install as required BUT... doing so will also show them all of the available shares... not a major issue but would rather just list the printers (i am using "browseable = no" to hide all shares) but am now running into another problem.
I'm using a web interface to smbclient to allow staff to access the file server from home.
Making all shares inviable effectively makes the use of the web smbclient pointless
Is it possible to use a netbiios alias and force the printers to list under the alias ?
Any other suggestion welcome
Look up the %L substitution and include files.
You can do something along these lines :
netbios name = fileserver
netbios aliases = printersinclude = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%L
Your main smb.conf file contains ONLY the global section (and anything you specifically want to appear on each virtual server). You then have additional files in the form smb.conf.<servername> which contain the relevant shares for each server. You might have to experiment a bit with the case of the servername and include files, I can't remember whether takes the servername as written, or if any case conversion happens.
What happens is that when a client connects to any of the servers, Samba loads the smb.conf file as it starts the server process to handle the client. %L is substituted with the server name that the client connected to, and so the include statement will include the relevant file for the servername.
Downsides :
1) You can no longer administer the server with SWAT or Webmin. Later versions (of Webmin IIRC) warn you, earlier ones just write out a new smb.conf and leave you wondering where the f*** your shares just went - guess how I found out about that :-(
2) It doesn't work with pure IP - only with Netbios ? Hopefully someone else can fill in that one, I can only remember bits that have been on this list. I think it was something to do with the client not giving a server name when it connects directly with IP (on port 445 ?)
3) All the virtual servers have the same server comment.
4) I don't know if it's still recommended practice, or if it's something that's likely to stop working in the future.
Simon
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