[Samba] Bug report

[Steve Salvini]

Hi - I'm trying to get samba set up as a PDC using automounted home 
directories, the automount maps being served by NIS.  After a bit of 
hacking I think I've found a bug in the "latest release" (2.2.6) that I 
downloaded yesterday.  It's in ($SAMBA_SRC_DIR)/source/param/loadparm.c
and it means that lp_nis_home_map can never return a valid map name 
under NIS; it would've been fine under NIS+ but let's face it, we're 
dinosaurs here ;-)

Here's the diff:

<1252>samba01# diff ($SAMBA_SRC_DIR)/source/param/loadparm.c ../../../fixed/loadparm.c
1361d1360
<       Globals.bNISHomeMap = False;
1363c1362
<       Globals.bNISHomeMap = True;
---
>       Globals.bNISHomeMap = False;


It would also be useful to (to me, at least) if szNISHomeMapName could 
be set through "configure" rather than it being hard-wired into the 
code.  We're probably not the only site to have our own name for this 
map.

And finally a quick word of thanks as you wouldn't believe what it 
means to an aging Unix dinosaur be able to investigate problems with an 
"NT PDC" by setting debug statements in the code, etc. rather than 
searching TechNet and praying - goodbye horrible black box aka 
Microsoft NT server software! ;-)

Steve.