smb.conf bug

[Gerald Carter]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Dmitry Karasik wrote:

>
> There is a bug in samba-2.0.10, which develops if
> string in smb.conf is too long. In my case,
> I have hosts.allow string of IP addresses, that
> is seems to be longer than some limit as is silenlty
> truncated, as testparm shows.

Yes.  Static sized strings are a problem.  We are working on addressing
this in Samba 3.0.

> The most confusion was caused by the silent truncation. It would be
> much help with the vocal truncation, however - I would propose to
> review the smb.conf loading procedure, so such limitations to the
> parameter strings can be emilinated.

Good suggestion.  I'll see what we can do.  Probably not for 2.2.3 though.




chau, jerry
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