[SAMBA4] Rename smbd to samba?

Sergey Yanovich ynvich at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 22:21:48 GMT 2008


Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> In Samba 4, Samba is now a single daemon (i.e. not smbd + nmbd). It also
> does a lot more than just the SMB protocol, as the name smbd suggests.
> Would it make sense to rename the main daemon binary to "samba" to
> reflect these changes ?

I am trying to split Kerberos, and maybe LDAP also, off Samba4. Not sure 
when this can be completed, though.

Anyway, to save renaming back and forth, I propose to wait a bit closer 
to the release ;-)

Cheers,

-- 
Sergey Yanovich


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