"samba3" parameters in smb.conf when running as AD DC

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:32, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> If I set samba3 parameter (ie. vfs object) in smb.conf for samba4 it will print an error message: Unknown parameter encountered: "vfs objects", but server will start.
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> If I try to add it with python it will print this error message and the the line won't be added in the smb.conf if I then do a lp.dump(file).
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> This is causing a problem during provision as it's using the python interface for loadparm and setting some samba file server options could be interesting.
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> What's the solution ? Adding those parameters to samba 4 ? prefix them with s3fs and instruct source3/param/loadparam.c how to strip this prefix ?
What about adding param flags FLAG_SAMBA3, FLAG_SAMBA4 and specify
them explicitly in parm_table?
In addition to that both parm tables could be provided in a common
lib/param/ library so that code in samba4 could consult them both and
ignore ones with FLAG_SAMBA3 while code in samba3 could also consult
both and ignore ones with FLAG_SAMBA4.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy