[PATCH] samba_upgradedns: message the user if they need to change smb.conf

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Jan 5 15:29:53 MST 2014


On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 11:35 -0600, Ricky Nance wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 01/01/14 16:12, Ricky Nance wrote:
> >
> >> Had a user in the samba IRC channel get tripped up on this the other day,
> >> so it warns the user when changing the DNS backends if the config is going
> >> to cause problems.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ricky
> >>
> > seeing as the smb.conf is created automatically when you provision,
> > wouldn't it be a better idea to alter the smb.conf automatically rather
> > than throwing a warning message?
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> 
> That isn't a bad idea, but right now I am just enough of a programmer to
> get the warning messages to appear when they are needed. Once I get a
> little more knowledge on how to accomplish that, I will take care of it. :)

We don't like changing the user's smb.conf, except when using the
'registry' smb.conf backend, which isn't in use with the AD DC anyway. 

Andrew Bartlett

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