source environmentfilename

source environment = filename

[global]

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Allowable values : name of file

Default : NULL

Causes Samba to read a list of environment variables from a file upon startup. This can be useful when setting up Samba in a clustered environment. The filename can begin with a "" (pipe) character, in which case it causes Samba to run the file as a command to obtain the variables .

The file must be owned by root and must not be world-writable. If the filename begins with a "" character, it must point to a command that is neither world-writable nor resides in a world-writable directory.

The data should be in the form of lines such as SAMBA_NETBIOS_NAME= myhostname . This value will then be available in the smb.conf files as %$SAMBA_NETBIOS_NAME.