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Last updated July 2, 2026

Samba

Samba lists every host in your fleet that runs smbd (or has an /etc/samba/smb.conf) together with the shares it publishes and a short security review of each share.

At /samba the header sums up how many servers have Samba running and how many shares in total. Below it, four KPI tiles:

  • Servers — hosts with an active Samba daemon.
  • Shares — total SMB shares detected.
  • Warnings — shares with configuration issues that deserve a look.
  • Critical — shares with risky settings (e.g. writable, world-readable, or guest-accessible in a bad way).

The main list is one row per server with:

  • Hostname and IP.
  • Total number of shares on that host.
  • Badges: N crit, N warn, or Clean if no issues were found.

Opening a server takes you to its share detail.

For a single host, you see every share the agent found with:

  • Share name and path.
  • Access mode (read-only / read-write, guest ok, browsable).
  • Risk levelok / warn / crit with a short explanation of why.
  • Users and groups the share is exposed to.

If no shares register as risky the whole server is marked Clean.

Today this page is read-only. HostAtlas surfaces the current state and the risk grading; changing a share still means editing smb.conf on the host (through your usual workflow — the SSH Client works well for this).

  • The agent detects Samba automatically. When smbd is running or a Samba config file is present, the host shows up here on the next discovery pass.
  • Share definitions are parsed from smb.conf and any included files.
  • Risk grading is a small ruleset — writable guest shares, shares open to everyone, and other well-known misconfigurations trip a warn or crit badge.
  • Servers — see all services on a single host on its Services tab.
  • Firewall — check that ports 139 / 445 are locked down where they should be.
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