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Groups define a collection of computers or users which have a common level of access to particular network resources and offer a level of granularity in controlling access to such resources. For example, if a group <emphasis role="italic">qa</emphasis> is defined and contains the users <emphasis role="italic">freda</emphasis>, <emphasis role="italic">danika</emphasis>, and <emphasis role="italic">rob</emphasis> and a second group <emphasis role="italic">support</emphasis> is defined and consists of users <emphasis role="italic">danika</emphasis>, <emphasis role="italic">jeremy</emphasis>, and <emphasis role="italic">vincent</emphasis> then certain network resources configured to allow access by the <emphasis role="italic">qa</emphasis> group will subsequently enable access by freda, danika, and rob, but not jeremy or vincent. Since the user <emphasis role="italic">danika</emphasis> belongs to both the <emphasis role="italic">qa</emphasis> and <emphasis role="italic">support</emphasis> groups, she will be able to access resources configured for access by both groups, whereas all other users will have only access to resources explicitly allowing the group they are part of.

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When defining groups in the SAMBA configuration file, <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> the recognized syntax is to preface the group name with an "@" symbol. For example, if you wished to define a group named <emphasis role="italic">sysadmin</emphasis> in a certain section of the <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>, you would do so by entering the group name as <emphasis role="bold">@sysadmin</emphasis>.

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Group Policy

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Group Policy defines certain SAMBA configuration settings pertaining to the Domain or Workgroup computer accounts belong to, and other global settings for the SAMBA server. For example, if the SAMBA server belongs to a Workgroup of Windows computers called <emphasis role="italic">LEVELONE</emphasis>, then the <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> could be edited, and the following value changed accordingly:

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workgroup = LEVELONE

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Save the file and restart the SAMBA daemons to affect the change.

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Other important global policy settings include the <emphasis role="italic">server string</emphasis> which defines the NETBIOS server name reported by your Ubuntu system to other machines on the Windows-based network. This is the name your Ubuntu system will be recognized as by Windows clients and other computers capable of browsing the network with the SMB protocol. Additionally, you may specify the name and location of the SAMBA server's log file by using the <emphasis role="italic">log file</emphasis> directive in the <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> file.

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Some of the additional directives governing global group policy include specification of the global nature of all shared resources. For example, placing certain directives under the <emphasis role="italic">[global]</emphasis> heading of the <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> file will affect all shared resources unless an overriding directive is placed under a particular shared resource heading. You specify all shares are browseable by all clients on the network by placing a <emphasis role="italic">browseable</emphasis> directive, which takes a Boolean argument, under the <emphasis role="italic">[global]</emphasis> heading in the <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>. That is, if you edit the file and add the line:

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browseable = true

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under the <emphasis role="italic">[global]</emphasis> section of <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename>, then all shares provided by your Ubuntu system via SAMBA will be browseable by all authorized clients, unless a specific share contains a <emphasis role="italic">browseable = false</emphasis> directive, which will override the global directive.