


Internal whitespace within aĪny line beginning with a semicolon (" ") or a hash ("#") character is ignored, as are lines containing only whitespace.Īny line ending in a "\" is continued on the next line in the customary UNIX fashion. Leading and trailing whitespace in a parameter value is discarded. Whitespace in section and parameter names is irrelevant. Whitespace before or after the first equals sign is discarded. Only the first equals sign in a parameter is significant. Section and parameter names are not case sensitive. The file is line-based - that is, each newline-terminated line represents either a comment, a section name or a parameter. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next section begins. The file consists of sections and parameters. The complete description of the file format and possible parameters held within Is designed to be configured and administered by the swat(8) program. smb.conf contains runtime configuration information for the Samba programs.

The smb.conf file is a configuration file for the Samba suite. Smb.conf - The configuration file for the Samba suite
