libsmbclient: Browsing and a URI spec?

[Simo Sorce]

What about making a new section (call it [clients]) in the samba smb.conf
file?

Here you may put the parameters you need and still use the defaults in the
global section.
If you want to change a default simply put it in this section and it may
also be used by smbclient.

Anyway I don't care too much about defaults, as I think callback function
must be set to lett apps to change any parameter, allowing them to use
their defaults anyway.

I also think that a $HOME/.smb.conf may be usefull, but I also think that
the ability to take parameters from there should be controlled by a switch
in main smb.conf file

eg:

[clients]

workgroup = office1
auth domain = central
allow user conf = no

...

Simo.

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Welsh, Armand wrote:

> Because
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon at netexpress.net]
> -> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 3:18 PM
>
> -> In fact, there is at least one parameter in smb.conf which
> -> is used almost
> -> entirely as a client configuration option: 'name resolve
> -> order'.  As a server,
> -> samba rarely has occasion to resolve netbios names to IPs
> -> (this will happen in
> -> security = server or security = domain when locating the
> -> authentication
> -> server, but that's about it).  OTOH, smbclient needs this
>
> I beleive you are correct.  I stand corrected.  The 'name resolve order' is
> mostly client based.
>
> -> unless you explicitly provide the -I <IP> option.  There are
> -> other global
> -> settings in smb.conf which are equally useful to both
> -> smbclient and to
> -> smbd/nmbd, so I can't agree that smb.conf is exclusively a
> -> server config file.
>
> but it is still primarily a server config file. :)
>
> -> Moreover, many of these config options that are used by both
> -> client and server
> -> are going to be set to the same values for both Samba and
> -> libsmbclient-using
> -> apps.  Why require an admin to specify the 'name resolve
> -> order' or the 'wins
> -> server' two different ways in two different config files?
>
> only, if you rely on smb.conf file, then you will have defaults.  This means
> that if won't be able to browse for smb:// because it will pickup the
> default, which is set currently is smb.conf.  hmmmm.. I just see it as not
> being as versatile, since you will always have a default.  the nice thing
> about having a seperate file is that you can have a null domain, and a null
> workgroup, regardless of how the server works.  you can even have the
> workgroup and domain totally seperate of what samba uses, providing more
> flexability.
>
> Perhaps allowing the use of smb.conf as a default config file, then using an
> smbc.conf as localized (global) defaults for the client, then you only have
> to decide, how to handle the SPECIAL case where the client and the server
> share the smb.conf file.
>
> I say, do as samba does... default to both workgroup and domain to the
> workgroup value in smb.conf.
>
>

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