Remove smbwrapper?
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Mon Jan 2 13:51:07 GMT 2006
Just FYI, the samba-3.0 copy builds in Solaris 10 with the Sun compilers.
--dave
David Collier-Brown wrote:
> It works fine on Solaris 8 through 10, but I haven't built it
> lately because it defaults to off instead of auto in Configure.
> That discourages me from noticing bugs, you see (;-))
>
> As it happens, it only uses a small subset of the functionality
> of loadparm, and therefor doesn't need the dependency on
> tdb that the samba server requires. Indeed, it seems odd to me
> that it depend on smb.conf at all! It's not a server, after all.
>
> --dave
>
> Volker Lendecke wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Right now smbwrapper in trunk does not build, mainly because using
>> loadparm.o
>> has to pull in tdb and sharesec.o which itself references for example
>> prs_mem_free and sec_io_desc.
>>
>> I've never used it in production, and last I heard was that it is broken
>> anyway. So is it worth putting any energy into it? Alternatively I would
>> consider removing it.
>>
>> Volker
>
>
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