[Samba] Enhancement of wbinfo in samba2.2.6pre2

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Sep 1 02:37:00 GMT 2002


Nir Soffer wrote:
> 
> >
> > Patrik Gustavsson PS Sweden Senior Technical Consultant wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Most of the samba-commands takes a option for smb.conf file
> > > exept for wbinfo.
> > > It should be nice to have that functionallity in wbinfo also.
> >
> > Actually, we should work to remove the need for wbinfo to use smb.conf
> > at all.
> >
> > Why do you need this?
> 
> I don't know why the first poster needed it, but I know I need such an
> option (and writing a patch for it is on my todo list, really, it is!),
> because my smb.conf is in nonstandard locations.
> 
> As for removing smb.conf dependance altogether - I see the following
> snippets in the code:
> --
>         if (winbindd_request(WINBINDD_INFO, NULL, &response) !=
>             NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
>                 printf("could not obtain winbind separator!\n");
>                 /* HACK: (this module should not call lp_ funtions) */
>                 return *lp_winbind_separator();
>         }
> --
> if (!sep) {
>                 printf("winbind separator was NULL!\n");
>                 /* HACK: (this module should not call lp_ funtions) */
>                 sep = *lp_winbind_separator();
>         }
> --
>        if (winbindd_request(WINBINDD_DOMAIN_NAME, NULL, &response) !=
>             NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
>                 printf("could not obtain winbind domain name!\n");
> 
>                 /* HACK: (this module should not call lp_ funtions) */
>                 return lp_workgroup();
>         }
> --
>         codepage_initialise(lp_client_code_page());
> --
> 
> So I understand wbinfo wants the workgroup and the seperator, and the
> client code page. Where can I get it besides smb.conf, as a commandline
> paramater?



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