Samba That Encrypts Every Session
Samba for named accounts over SMB 3 only. The package accepts SMB 2.0.2, encrypts and signs only when the client asks, shares every local home, exposes printer shares and runs NetBIOS on 139. This role requires encryption and signing (the live test reads it from the server), serves only the shares you list, and speaks on 445 alone. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-19 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
samba-share
Samba as a file server for named accounts: SMB 3 only, every session encrypted and signed, no home-directory shares, no printer shares, no NetBIOS. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
The wire is open unless the client insists. In the package configuration
server smb encrypt and server signing are both default, which for a
standalone server means: encrypt or sign only when the client asks. Most do
not ask. This role sets required and mandatory. The live test opens a
session with encryption switched off in the client and reads from the server
(smbstatus) that the session is SMB 3.1.1 with AES-GCM encryption and GMAC
signing anyway - "required" means the client's wish does not matter.
SMB 2.0.2 is accepted. server min protocol = SMB2_02 admits the Vista
era dialect, without encryption support. The role sets SMB3 and the live
test connects as an SMB 2 client and expects a refusal.
Every local account's home is a share. The package smb.conf ships
[homes] (writable) and [printers] / [print$] with load printers = yes.
The role writes the whole file: only the shares you list, for the users you
list, restrict anonymous = 2 so a stranger cannot even list them.
Port 445 only. NetBIOS name service, nmbd and port 139 are a 1990s
discovery protocol on a file server; the role disables them and the live
test reads the listening sockets.
Accounts are set through smbpasswd, not rendered. A password is set
when the account is missing from Samba's database (or for all accounts with
samba_share_reset_passwords), which keeps the second run at changed=0.
The matching Unix account is created with no shell.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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- Variables
- Test
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