Extended BSD Printing Configuration shows a more verbose configuration for print-related settings in a BSD-style printing environment. What follows is a discussion and explanation of the various parameters. We chose to use BSD-style printing here because it is still the most commonly used system on legacy UNIX/Linux installations. New installations predominantly use CUPS, which is discussed in a separate chapter. The example explicitly names many parameters that do not need to be specified because they are set by default. You could use a much leaner smb.conf file, or you can use testparm or SWAT to optimize the smb.conf file to remove all parameters that are set at default.

This is an example configuration. You may not find all the settings that are in the configuration file that was provided by the OS vendor. Samba configuration parameters, if not explicitly set, default to a sensible value. To see all settings, as root use the testparm utility. testparm gives warnings for misconfigured settings.