CVS update: samba/docs/htmldocs

Matt Chapman mattyc at newcollege.unsw.edu.au
Tue Apr 13 02:00:49 EST 1999


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> > * "domain master" now defaults to "auto". Currently this attempts to
> > become DMB iff Samba is the PDC (ala Windows NT).
> 
> no, this HAS to be disabled and HAS to default to off.  if you do this
> then you will cause problems in NT PDC environments.  DON'T do this!
> 

Can you explain why - this is just what NT does, no? I changed it
because many people (including my sysadmin :-)) don't set "domain
master = yes" in a Samba-PDC environment, which results in no DMB.

> > * lp_server_role now just returns the predetermined role, rather than
> > working it out each time, since the server role is becoming very heavily
> > used (esp for the BDC code).
> 
> you cached it?

Yep, that's the shorter way of saying that :-)

	Matt


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Matt Chapman
New College UNSW



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