Ubuntu – Samba share not in smb.conf

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I'm creating a new File Server for a customer, and decided to load the KDE desktop so that the customer could manage shares and not have to use the CLI. I set up Samba and shared 3 folders through the smb.conf file, then figured I'd try to share a file from the GUI. So I right clicked on the folder I wanted to share, and selected the share options and just like that I had an additional shared folder.

I then went back to the SMB.conf file at /etc/samba/smb.conf and wanted to see what "options" sharing through the GUI did to the file, and… What I expected to see in the smb.conf file was not there, the folder is shared, but it's not shared or configured from the SMB.conf file. Where are the options set for a shared folder when you create a file share from the GUI?

I'm stumped.

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Cite from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaServerGuide

The shares are defined in the background using the "net usershare" command and the definitions are saved in /var/lib/samba/usershares/ . Therefore, shares defined with this method are not visible in smb.conf.

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