Samba Cookbook

Installs and configures Samba client or server.

Maintainers

This cookbook is maintained by the Sous Chefs. The Sous Chefs are a community of Chef cookbook maintainers working together to maintain important cookbooks. If you’d like to know more please visit sous-chefs.org or come chat with us on the Chef Community Slack in #sous-chefs.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian / Ubuntu derivatives
• RedHat and derivatives

Chef

• Chef 15.3+

Known Limitations

• Does not integrate with LDAP/AD.
• Uses plaintext passwords for the user resource to create the SMB users if the password backend is tdbsam or smbpasswd. See below under usage.
• Creates & manages the system user. The creation of the user is the trigger for smbpasswd.

Resources

• user
• server
• client

Contributors

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Backers

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