Mixed profiles w/Samba-PDC

[William Stuart]

Paul--

I believe we are going to retain the ability to edit the domain.sid file,
it just won't appear in the smb.conf.

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William Stuart  (william at hae.com)
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On Thu, 28 May 1998, Paul Ashton wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 04:38:07 +1000
> From: Paul Ashton <paul at argo.demon.co.uk>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Mixed profiles w/Samba-PDC 
> 
> 
> jallison at whistle.com said:
> > Indeed I'm going to remove the 'domain sid' parameter 
> > before then (that'll break *everyone's* smb.conf files :-)
> 
> NO! Don't do that. I was going to mention this earlier when
> you introduced it, but I didn't since you didn't remove the
> option to do it manually.
> 
> Unix isn't NT. On Unix I like to have control over what
> happens. I don't like "management by broadcast" and "management
> by random number generation" which is half of what NT is all
> about. If I want to configure my DHCP server or my Samba PDC
> to allocate mappings that perhaps have a larger significance,
> I can do it. Why is 1-5-21-32423423-2342312-123213 better than
> 1-5-21-192-168-59 which happens to also indicate which subnet
> the PDC is for? (to give but one contrived example)
> 
> Paul
> 
>