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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.txt b/docs/INSTALL.txt index 6f752b6397..1322047fd1 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL.txt +++ b/docs/INSTALL.txt @@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ options. The simplest useful configuration file would be something like this: -[homes] - workgroup = MYGROUP - guest ok = no - read only = no + workgroup = MYGROUP + + [homes] + guest ok = no + read only = no which would allow connections by anyone with an account on the server, using either their login name or "homes" as the service name. (Note @@ -230,8 +231,9 @@ CHOOSING THE PROTOCOL LEVEL The SMB protocol has many dialects. Currently Samba supports 5, called CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2 and NT1. -You can choose what protocols to support in the smb.conf file. The -default is NT1 and that is the best for the vast majority of sites. +You can choose what maximum protocol to support in the smb.conf +file. The default is NT1 and that is the best for the vast majority of +sites. In older versions of Samba you may have found it necessary to use COREPLUS. The limitations that led to this have mostly been fixed. It @@ -310,7 +312,9 @@ compatability modes called DENY_FCB and DENY_DOS. You can disable share modes using "share modes = no". This may be useful on a heavily loaded server as the share modes code is very -slow. +slow. See also the FAST_SHARE_MODES option in the Makefile for a way +to do full share modes very fast using shared memory (if your OS +supports it). MAPPING USERNAMES |