That troublemaker again (replace domain logons =, domain master=)

[Andrew Bartlett]

Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:37:49PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> > It should decrese the overhead, becouse the option is clear.  No more
> > 'domain logons = pdc, but not if domain master = no, then its a bdc'
> > kind of stuff.
> >
> > Table:
> >                    PDC        BDC       Standalone (also member)     DMB
> > domain master =     Y          N                 N                    Y
> > domain logons =     Y          Y                 N                    N
> 
> There's at least one other entry that needs to go in this table:
> 
>   encrypt passwords = Y          Y                Y/N                  Y/N

And enforcing this would reduce the number of bug reports, because the
error messages you get are not exactly helpful...

> > > > If sombody can show a sane way to implement backward-compatablity on
> > > > this, I'll be happy to see it.  It just seemed like it would a little
> > > > too messy.  We will see.
> > >
> > > I'll need to understand it more and think some.
> 
> An easy way of doing this is to add the 'server role' parameter and keep
> all the other random browsing related ones.  By setting 'server role'
> you are implicitly setting the values of other ones as per the above
> table.
> 
> You may have to worry about the order of the parameters in the smb.conf
> file.  Or maybe not.

I'm fine with this, as long as we kill the dependence on security=
(which this will do).  It just seemed that others wanted to remove some
parameters as well, so I put my head above the trenches and waited for
the incoming lead.

Andrew Bartlett

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