[SAMBA4][PATCH] dd client for samba 4

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed Jan 18 00:01:57 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:44 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> smbcacls was a tool created to handle a particular task in Samba, and no
> doubt did that task quite well, without disrupting other tools.  It also
> broke very often, and was unmaintained and untested for long periods of
> time.  

Yes, although I don't see why new tools can't be created these days now
that we have a much easier way of executing tests via the build farm.

The history behind smbcacls was that it was written as part of a
contract which required a standalone tool.


Tim.


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