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help!
I’d like to add an entry to an (working) samba smb.conf file in REHL 4, but back it up first and have the ability to copy the original back in if I eff things up
So background is that SMB1 has been disabled in light of the wannacry etc. attacks in May, however that has killed Windows 7 client connections to a Linux VM with some samba shares, so I need to enable SMB2
So far I’ve copied the working smb.conf via command cp /etc/samba/smb.conf ~ and I see that copy file in root home, so I know I have a backup of the known good config
Google suggests cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.backup makes a copy and cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.backup /etc/samba/smb.conf would copy my backup back in
What I’m not entirely sure of is whether I need to edit the ‘running’ config when in the ‘backup’ context (cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf) and then if I save that, does whatever change I make become the working file?
I’m confused