smb.conf defaults for msdfs parms

[Tim Potter]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:21 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> 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.

Cool.  I was hoping to get a bit more discussion going about it though,
in case I have forgotten something important. 


Tim.
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