Wildcard handling

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Richard Bollinger wrote:

> > The next question is what sort of server are we trying to emulate when
> > we have "nt smb support = no". To determine that I would first like to
> > know *why* people use the "nt smb support" option. Is there some other
> > critical behaviour in Samba which needs that setting set to no? Can we
> > fix that and remove the option completely?

> In my situation, the option was accidentally enabled and my original conclusion was "don't do
> that" (tm).

> Perhaps the option should be indicated as "depreciated" with an eye towards removing it if
> no-one identifies a worthy purpose.

> If the option is retained, Andrew's suggestion to change Samba's behaviour only in that case
> (when nt smb support = No is set) should apply.