Samba

`services.samba.configText`

Verbatim contents of smb.conf. If null (default), use the autogenerated file from NixOS instead.

Type: null or strings concatenated with "\n"

Default

null

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.enable`

Whether to enable Samba, which provides file and print services to Windows clients through the SMB/CIFS protocol.

::: {.note} If you use the firewall consider adding the following:

services.samba.openFirewall = true;

:::

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.enableNmbd`

Whether to enable Samba's nmbd, which replies to NetBIOS over IP name service requests. It also participates in the browsing protocols which make up the Windows "Network Neighborhood" view.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.enableWinbindd`

Whether to enable Samba's winbindd, which provides a number of services to the Name Service Switch capability found in most modern C libraries, to arbitrary applications via PAM and ntlm_auth and to Samba itself.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.extraConfig`

Additional global section and extra section lines go in here.

Type: strings concatenated with "\n"

Default

""

Example

'' guest account = nobody map to guest = bad user''

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.invalidUsers`

List of users who are denied to login via Samba.

Type: list of string

Default

["root"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.nsswins`

Whether to enable the WINS NSS (Name Service Switch) plug-in. Enabling it allows applications to resolve WINS/NetBIOS names (a.k.a. Windows machine names) by transparently querying the winbindd daemon.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.openFirewall`

Whether to automatically open the necessary ports in the firewall.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.package`

The samba package to use. Type: package

Default

pkgs.samba

Example

samba4Full

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.securityType`

Samba security type Type: one of "auto", "user", "domain", "ads"

Default

"user"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix

`services.samba.shares`

A set describing shared resources. See {command}man smb.conf for options.

Type: attribute set of attribute set of unspecified value

Default

{ }

Example

{ public ={ path = "/srv/public";"read only" = true;browseable = "yes";"guest ok" = "yes";comment = "Public samba share.";};}

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/samba.nix