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

[Matthieu Patou]

On 04/04/2012 02:00 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:22 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:32, Matthieu Patou<mat at samba.org>  wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
> It simply needs to be just one parameter table.  The starting point is
> to get the two existing tables in sync (they are already for
> service-specific parameters).
>
> We could start by using another #include to bring in the common
> portion.
Seems ok for me, are others ok too ?


Matthieu

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