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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

By : Neil Smyth
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

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By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is one of the most secure and dependable operating systems available. For this reason, the ambitious system or network engineer will find a working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise 8 to be an invaluable advantage in their respective fields. This book, now updated for RHEL 8.1, begins with a history of Red Enterprise Linux and its installation. You will be virtually perform remote system administration tasks with cockpit web interface and write shell scripts to maintain server-based systems without desktop installation. Then, you will set up a firewall system using a secure shell and enable remote access to Gnome desktop environment with virtual network computing (VNC). You’ll share files between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) and Windows System using Samba client and NFS. You will also run multiple guest operating systems using virtualization and Linux containers, and host websites using RHEL 8 by installing an Apache web server. Finally, you will create logical disks using logical volume management and implement swap space to maintain the performance of a RHEL 8 system. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the skills and knowledge to install the RHEL 8 operating system and use it expertly.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
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Index

18.7 Testing the smb.conf File

The settings in the smb.conf file may be checked for errors using the testparm command-line tool as follows:

# testparm

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf

rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)

Processing section "[sampleshare]"

Processing section "[homes]"

Processing section "[printers]"

Processing section "[print$]"

Loaded services file OK.

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

 

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

 

# Global parameters

[global]

log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log

netbios name = LINUXSERVER

printcap name = cups

security = USER

wins support = Yes

idmap config * : backend = tdb

cups options = raw

 

[sampleshare]

comment = Example Samba share

guest ok = Yes

path = /sampleshare

read only = No

 

[homes]

browseable = No

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