This role will install Samba, a file sharing service compatible with many operating systems. Samba is a free software re-implementation of Microsoft SMB/CIFS communication protocol.
The server is set up as a "standalone"/workgroup server (ie. not part of a domain) and can use one of these backends for user accounts:
- standard local Linux users
- LDAP users
- See meta/main.yml
- The LDAP server must be running on the same host as the samba server if
samba_passdb_backend: ldpsamis used, and be deployed before the samba role.
# playbook.yml
- hosts: my.CHANGEME.org
roles:
- nodiscc.xsrv.common # (optional) base server setup, hardening, firewall
- nodiscc.xsrv.monitoring # (optional) system/server monitoring and health checks
- nodiscc.xsrv.backup # (optional) automatic backups
- nodiscc.xsrv.openldap # (required if samba_passdb_backend: ldapsam) LDAP user backend
- nodiscc.xsrv.sambaSee defaults/main.yml for all configuration variables
- From Windows clients: access from the
Networkentry in the Windows file manager sidebar, or directly at\\SERVER_ADDRESSin the explorer location bar. - From Mac OSX clients: access from the
Networkentry in the OSX Finder sidebar, or directly atsmb://SERVER_ADDRESS/from theGo > Connect to server...finder menu entry. - From Linux clients: access from the
Network > Windows Networkentry in the file manager sidebar, or directly atsmb://SERVER_ADDRESS/from theFile > Connect to server...menu entry.
See the included rsnapshot configuration for the backup role.
This role does not remove any user accounts. To remove a samba user account, remove it from the samba_users list, and remove their account from the server manually with sudo deluser my_old_user
samba - setup samba file server
samba-shares - configfure samba file shares
samba-users - configfure samba user accounts
utils-samba-listusers - (manual) list samba users