NT5rc2 -> Samba PDC

[Steve Litt]

Any idea when 2.1 will be stable?

Steve Litt


At 06:12 AM 11/21/1999 +1100, ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au wrote:
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>On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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>> jeremy, i _do_ want to punish / discourage people from using 2.0.X as a
>> PDC!  the MSRPC services are old and ugly; the NT to unix mapping system
>> nails us to some smb.conf parameters i just threw in to loadparm.c so i
>> could get things working.
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>> i would be very surprised if NT5rc2 can actually talk to 2.0.X MSRPC
>> services.  NT5rc2 is far more robust and picky about the marshalled data
>> it will accept (a Good Thing :)
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>> in the end, the patch to fix this damn stuff was modifications to two
>> lines.  it's therefore pretty simple job to put or not put this in, with
>> the benefit that if you don't put it in, people won't be able to use NT5
>> with 2.0.X as a PDC.
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>> i don't care if you like it, people: don't do it!!!  you'll end up with
>> headaches later, trying to move to 2.1.X!
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>It is all and good telling us to move to 2.1.X, but it is no good unless
>2.1.X is released and usable. I use 2.0.X as PDC for the moment because
>it is stable and there is no 2.1.X too speak of (no CVS doesn't cut it on
>production servers)
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>Sorryu for my useless rant. I would just like it if 2.1.X could finally
>get out of the door, since 2.0.X really sucks as a PDC. Keep up the good
>work samba team.
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>Beau Kuiper
>ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au
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>> gerald, the defining answer... i had one ten minutes ago :)
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>> <a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
>> <a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development   </a>
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>> <a href="http://www.iss.net"      > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
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