Remove unused finddcs_nbt (Re: [SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated)

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Jun 8 03:01:08 MDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:46:48PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 09:35 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > > commit 06c90cb6f55701effa4cbafaf189a4de8471949b
> > > Author: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> > > Date:   Thu Jun 7 14:21:25 2012 +1000
> > > 
> > >     s4-libcli: Remove unused finddcs_nbt
> > >     
> > >     This would only do the NBT getdc lookup for a single DC (but would
> > >     find multiple DCs at first stage), but more particular it of course
> > >     uses Netbios rather than DNS names.
> > >     
> > >     In any case it was also unused, as we use CLDAP for reliable DC
> > >     location these days.
> > >     
> > >     Found by callcatcher
> > 
> > I think it's a bug that it's not used.
> > 
> > Samba3 DCs doesn't support CLDAP.
> 
> Yes, I know that, but the source4/winbindd code has very little hope of
> becoming a working member of an NT4-like domain and we have the
> source3/winbind code for that.  

It is not only the member case. The most important role of
winbind on a DC is to take care of trusts. For migration
scenarios, I would expect many users to create trusts from
S4 to existing S3 domains, so whatever winbind is chosen
needs to be able to connect to those.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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