[Samba] Re: [Samba]smb.conf and Environment Variables

[Dwight Tovey]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 12:52, Sanjiv Bawa wrote:
> I did this. I set the Environment variables in /etc/init.d/smb script.
> 
> I then changed the domain to
> 
> DOMAIN = %$DOMAIN
> 
> and restarted the server.
> The domain showed up as %$DOMAIN and not the value of the variable.
> 
> What next?
> 
> Thanks for helping.
> 

It took me a little while to figure that out also.  The proper format
is:

DOMAIN = %$(DOMAIN)

The () chars are required.

	/dwight
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