Obsolete settings, still around
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Sun Mar 8 13:51:14 GMT 1998
at john's prompting, here's a closer (quick) look at the parameters that
are not used outside of loadparm.c, and also a quick assessement.
> I was looking for the actual code of the 'domain controller' setting and, unsurprisingly, I discovered it to be declared in loadparm.c, but never used elsewhere.
>
> Being curious, I made a small script to discover other samba settings declared but never used, by which I got the following list:
referenced only in loadparm.c by "wrapper" functions which are called
outside of loadparm.c:
> announce as (lp_announce_as)
> announce version (lp_announce_version)
> preload, auto services (lp_auto_services)
> load printers (lp_load_printers)
> time server (lp_time_server)
> volume (lp_volume)
not referred to at all inside loadparm.c or outside:
> character set (lp_character_set)
> domain controller (lp_domain_controller)
> getwd cache (lp_getwdcache)
> keepalive (lp_keepalive)
> max packet, packet size (lp_maxpacket)
ok. my opinion is that of the former group, some of these should not be
in loadparm.c - e.g the time server and announce functions. others (load
printers) are there for the manipulation of services, where it is
loadparm.c's job to create those services, so that's ok :-)
of the latter group, they need to be individually assessed.
however, this is not a question for the samba-ntdom list, so i haven't
replied to them there.
luke
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