os level in 2.0.6

[Steve Litt]

At 01:55 AM 11/29/1999 +1100, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>At 01:41 AM 11/29/99 +1100, cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU wrote:
>>Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> the default value for os level in Samba 2.0.6 appears 
>>> to be 20, while in prior versions it was 0.
>>> 
>>> This is bound to cause some confusion ... Especially 
>>> since there are books out there that say the default is 0.
>>
>>Yup.  I agree.  I make special note of this when I 
>>teach courses on Samba.
>
>Yes. I have verified it.  The default value in the 2.0.5a source is 0.
> 
>The default value in the 2.0.6 source is 20.  There are no comments in the
>source that I can see to explain the change, and there appears to be
>nothing in the announcement to explain it either.
>
>Gremlins?
>

Hi Richard 

It looks intentional. It's in my cvs.log:

145746  ****************************************
145747  Date:   Monday September 27, 1999 @ 18:28
145748  Author: tridge
145749
145750  Update of /data/cvs/samba/source/param
145751  In directory samba:/tmp/cvs-serv3833
145752
145753  Modified Files:
145754        Tag: SAMBA_2_0
145755          loadparm.c
145756  Log Message:
145757  - add the "wins hook" parameter
145758
145759  - changed the browse defaults to have "os level = 20". Samba really
145760  should have a higher priority than Win9X
145761                                                         

Note that the line numbers are mine :-)

It gets set at line 995 of loadparm.c:
 Globals.os_level = 20;

I don't have 2.0.5a source any more, but I went back to my 2.0.3 source and
found it to be set to 0, confirming your finding.

Richard and Jerry -- thanks for the heads up. I didn't know about this.

Steve Litt