[Samba] Won't %L work anymore?

Gary Algier gaa at ulticom.com
Thu Dec 5 16:04:01 GMT 2002


Thanks!  That did the trick.

BTW: The workgroup, and a bunch of other things, were identical between the
different virtual servers.  Only the shares differed. I did, however, move
all the rest of the [global] parameters into the master smb.conf.


Buchan Milne wrote:
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>>Message: 6
>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:43:01 -0500
>>From: Gary Algier <gaa at ulticom.com>
>>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Won't %L work anymore?
>>
>>A followup to my own post:
>>
>>I went ahead and implemented a configuration with %L.  It works great.
>>One problem: Micro@!#$t broke Win2k with SP3.
>>
>>My test PC was running Win2k SP2.  When it connected to the server it
>>seems to have supplied the "netbios name" of my server.  I went into
>>my boss's office to show him how great this works and his Win2k SP3
>>did not show the same shares.  They showed the shares that would
>>show if the "real" host name is used.
>>
>>Here's my basic config:
>>
>>System OS: Solaris 2.6
>>Samba: 2.2.7
>>Hostname: tea
>>IP addresses assigned: 172.25.0.13 (tea) 172.25.0.33 (cup) 172.25.0.34
> 
> (mug)
> 
>>Partial configs:
>>     /etc/samba/smb.conf:
>>         [global]
>>             interfaces = 127.0.0.1 172.25.0.13 172.25.0.33 172.25.0.34
> 
> #You probably want to try adding right here:
> netbios name = beverages
> netbios aliases = tea cup mug
> 
>>             include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.host-%L
>>     /etc/samba/smb.conf.host-tea:>          [global]
>>             workgroup = MTLAUREL
> 
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't think this will work if you have different workgroups listed
> here, I suspect you would have to run seperate smbd's with different
> config files if you want to do this.
> 
>>             netbios name = TEA
> 
> Unnecessary, use netbios aliases instead.
> 
>>             ...
>>         [some-shares]
>>             ...
>>     /etc/samba/smb.conf.host-cup:
>>         [global]
>>             workgroup = MTLAUREL
>>             netbios name = Cup
>>         [other-shares]
>>             ...
>>/etc/samba/smb.conf.host-mug:
>>         [global]
>>             workgroup = MTLAUREL
>>             netbios name = Cup
>>         [more-shares]
>>             ...
>>
>>So, am I crazy to think of using %L?  Should I use another (hidden) %
> 
> code?
> 
>>Should I hack in %s (for sockname) or %l (for alternate %L) as the result
>>of getsockname()?  Will this even work?  Is this any different in samba 3?
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