Installs and configures Samba client or server.

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• Debian / Ubuntu derivatives
• RedHat and derivatives

• Chef 15.3+

• Does not integrate with LDAP/AD.
• Uses plaintext passwords for the user resource to create the SMB users if the password backend is tdbsam or smbpasswd. See below under usage.
• Creates & manages the system user. The creation of the user is the trigger for smbpasswd.

• user
• server
• client

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