smbpasswd not handling password server = * correctly

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:22:03PM -0500, ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> Here I reported this problem along with 2 others in smbpasswd about a month
> ago. Here's the patch I came up with (against 2.2.3a):
> 
> smbpasswd-dcdetect.patch
> ------------------------
>   - Fixes bug where joining a domain with a given username
>     and password would not read the password server line
>     out of smb.conf.
>   - Fixes bug where joining a domain with a given username
>     and password would not correctly handle "*" as the
>     remote machine (which should use the autodetected PDC).
>   - Fixes bug where joining a domain with an existing account
>     would not correctly handle "*" as the the remote machine.
>     (it would use the lp_workgroup() field instead of the
>     domain that was passed to determine the PDC).
>   - Add a "-c" option to print the autodetected domain controller
>     for the given domain.

I've just fixed this (I think) to allow the correct PDC
autodetect in the SAMBA_2_2 branch (fix for 2.2.4). HEAD
does this already.

If you could test it out I'd appreciate it (I think the -c
is a good idea as well, but haven't added that yet).

Jeremy.