How to view the effective smb.conf when using mixed registry config

[Scott Lovenberg]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Christof Schmitt <cs at samba.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:12:45PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> > > It is a little confusing trying to figure out the "real" values that will
> > > be loaded by smbd (or any Samba utilities) since when "include=registry"
> > is
> > > used (or even when include of a text file from smb.conf is used), the
> > > "real" values are presumably
> > >
> > > 1) everything in smb.conf upto the include line, unless the registry (net
> > > conf) overwrites the same keyword (in which case that line is a no op)
> > > 2) everything from the registry ("net conf")
> > > 3) everything after the "include" line in smb.conf
> > >
> > > Is there a tool that dumps the "real" Samba configuration values - ie
> > what
> > > the final configuration looks like?
> >
> > testparm?
> >
> > Christof
> >
>
> Turns out that testparm sort of works, but is strange.
>
> I just did a "net conf setparm global workgroup WORKGROUP""
>
> and then testparm which doesn't display workgroup but if I do instead
>
> net conf setparm global "server string" "a Samba 4.5 server"
>
>
> then testparm does show it.  Weird that various parms are not listed
> (leases and workgroup)
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve


If you make testparm more verbose, does the accuracy of its output
increase? I know it's not likely, but I'm curious.

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Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.