smbwall

[Scott Gifford]

Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at pcug.org.au> writes:

[...]

> However, any attempt to make smbd create /dev/ entries is, in my
> opinion, highly misguided. The consequences in case of error and the
> cross-platform issues are a major concern to me.  As such, I greatly
> favor handling this outside smbd where the admin can configure such an
> arrangement to his/her liking.

Out of curiosity, do you have any technical objections to allocating a
pseudo-TTY for this purpose, if the admin requests it in the config
file?  I think that's the easiest solution to this.

----ScottG.