smb.conf defaults for msdfs parms

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Feb 24 04:21:30 GMT 2006


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Tim Potter wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:50 -0600, William Marshall wrote:
>> Unless there is a technical reason why, I think the msdfs parameters 
>> should default to yes and then the flexibility of dfs is available when 
>> the admin discovers what he can do.
> 
> The (only?) reason for the default for msdfs support is 
> for performance, although I can't remember what the exact
> penalty is.  I think it either causes some extra work to be
> done whenever a file is opened.

I can be convinced of this pretty easily.  Maybe for 3.0.22pre1.





cheers, jerry
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