Role Name

The samba role manages:

• Samba packages
• Samba services
• /etc/samba/smb.conf
• /etc/samba/shares.conf

Above assumes /etc/samba/smb.conf has line "include /etc/samba/shares.conf", this can be re-designed to meet your use cases.

The role supports various use cases where you can define:

• Ansible OS family running Samba (ex. some os/distro in your company don't run/support Samba)
• Host based Samba conf (ex, a host has specific/unique samba conf)
• Group of hosts running Samba (ex, a group of hosts has unique samba conf)
• Common default is 'no', meaning if no host/hostgroup samba cfg, the role won't configure samba on a common host.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

• Distro vars:

samba_mgmt_by_family samba_packages samba_services

• Host or hostgroup vars:

samba_mgmt_by_unit etc_samba_smb_conf etc_samba_shares_conf

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

See tests folder.

Author Information

ZD

License

Public domain. No ownership such as copyright, trademark, patent. No warranty.