What do you think ?

Jeremy Allison jallison at whistle.com
Mon Apr 13 17:41:35 GMT 1998


Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> Basically I need to store infos about printers, like the dpi, color or not
> color, the default page size, etc
> 
> So I have two choice, writing all of them in smb.conf (making between 15
> and 25 new entries) or making a small text file to hold all the infos
> 
> Myself I would prefer storing those info in a real database like ldap or
> netinfo

Jean-Francois,

	I would prefer you store them in a separate
file and include a pathname to that file as an smb.conf
parameter (as the printerdef stuff already does).

We already have too many smb.conf parameters :-).

Jeremy.

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