name resolve order

Jeremy Allison jallison at whistle.com
Mon Mar 16 21:38:22 GMT 1998


Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> Groan.
> 
> Um... I do think that I've mentioned this sort of thing a few times.  I
> wanted to go a bit further, though, and add in alternate means for
> resolving names.  I've done a bit of work on the idea.  I'll take a look
> at what you've done and see how I can adapt.
> 

Well the point of doing it the way I did was the
principle of 'least suprises' - ie. if someone
upgrades their Samba server to the new code
and doesn't read any of the docs then the new
code behaves exactly as the old code does - no
smb.conf changes needed.

Jeremy.

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