[Fwd: [SLE] [Fwd: Multiple workgroups (was Dear Ol' Samba)]]

[Nadeem Hasan]

Forwarded it to the samba-technical list.

Bruce wrote:
> 
> Thanks all for your replies. Likewise http://www.samba.org is also
> very vague about it.
> 
> The typical way is run another workgroup altogether. This seems to
> be the easiest.
> 
> I did try 'startproc'ing multiple copies of smbd and nmbd however the
> pids are written to files and the option to set a pid name in startproc
> seems to have no affect on the smbd.pid name created for smbd. Thus only one
> copy is alive. Multiple processes are created and although thwy have separate
> IP addresses (on eth aliases), the process errors. (as shown in log.smb)
> 
> Likewise
> 
> include /dir/workgroup.%L where
> workgroup.rifrafserver contains workgroup = RIFRAF
> doesn't work!! Nice try there. It defaults to WORKGROUP and refuses to change.
> 
> A proposal.
> 
> a modification to samba/smb to allow either
> workgroup = ADMIN. RIFRAF, WHATEVER ... ie multiple names
> 
> or
> 
> smbd -w workgroupnameoption -j /path/pid_file_name -u IPaddressOrInterface
> 
> Only a late night thought. Should we send it to samba.org??!!
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce.
>