On the Status tab (Modules --> File Server --> Status), you can perform the following actions:
To disable your file server:
Click the Disable button in the Tools section of the Status tab.
To view the current status of your file server, open the Status tab. In the Current statistics section, you can see whether your file server is started or stopped. The statistics on the current connections to shared directories is provided in the table with the following columns:
Share – name of the shared resource
Host – name of the remote host currently connected to the shared directory
User – user name who is currently connected to the shared directory
To view and edit the file server preferences:
Share - in this security mode, the user authenticates himself/herself separately for each share. The user sends a password along with each tree connection (share mount). Passwords are meant to be associated with each share, independent of the user.
User - this security mode is based on verifying the username and password. The server can either accept or reject the username/password combination. At this stage the server has no idea what share the client will eventually try to connect to, so it bases the accept/reject decision only on the username/password and the name of the client machine.
Server - in Server Security Mode, the Samba server receives the username/password from the client and sends a session setup request to the machine designated as the password server. If the password server is in user-level security and accepts the password, Samba accepts the client's connection. The client sends all passwords in encrypted form. This security mode requires the use of a password server (see Authentication server).
Domain - in Domain Security Mode, the Samba server has a domain security trust account (a machine account) and causes all authentication requests to be passed through to the domain controllers. In other words, domain security has basically the same concept as server security mode, with the exception that the Samba server becomes a member of a Windows NT domain. This means that the Samba server can participate in things such as trust relationships.
ADS - in this mode, the authentication procedure is performed through an Active Directory domain. Samba in this security mode can accept Kerberos tickets.
In this field, enter the NetBIOS name of the SMB server used as a password server, on which the Samba server will check the entered passwords. You can list multiple NetBIOS names separated with a space. This allows Samba to attempt a session setup request to each machine in the list in order until a server is contacted. This means that the next machine on the list is contacted only if the previous machine was unavailable.
You must use only the NetBIOS name of the password server (not the IP address), and Samba must have a way of resolving the name to an IP address in order to attempt the connection.
To create a local account for all users that access the Samba server and disable the password field, set this field to the asterisk character (*).
For details on the Samba security configuration options, please refer to the relevant Samba documentation.
To refresh data on the current connections to your file server:
Click the Refresh button on the Status tab. The list of current connections and file server status will be refreshed.