Code to replace the unexpected.tdb file

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Jan 5 04:17:28 MST 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 19:13 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote: 
> Hi!
> 
> http://git.samba.org/?p=vl/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/unexpected
> 
> has code to replace the unexpected.tdb file. 

I'll try and look over the detail of the patches in the next little bit,
but it's good to see this hack finally coming to the end of it's life.  

> It replaces it
> with a unix domain socket /tmp/.nmbd/unexpected where nmbd
> delivers specific packets requested by for example nmblookup
> and winbind.

Is there a particular reason the pipe needs to be in /tmp/.nmbd?  The
clients that intend to use this will be samba processes, that have
already read the smb.conf, so can't this be in lockdir or similar?

Andrew Bartlett

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