[Samba] SWAT on 3.0.0beta2

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote:

> I tried SWAT again, using "commit" to switch views, and it did work.
> This time, it seemed to leave my smb.conf reasonably intact, but it did
> strip out all of the comments, which probably accounts for Vincent's
> observation.
>
> I'm not sure I'm happy with the idea that you have to rewrite smb.conf
> just to view all of the parms though.
>
> Around here, that could be considered a restricted and possibly
> dangerous change, on the off chance you accidentally alter one of the
> fields.  It also kills any chance of monitoring the last update date,
> and I can see situations where you might keep comments in smb.conf,
> maintain it by hand, but use SWAT to confirm the parameters.

Many of us echo your concerns. We welcome your patches. Any idea when
they will be ready?

- John T.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vincent.Badier at alcatel.fr [mailto:Vincent.Badier at alcatel.fr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:00 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: [Samba] SWAT on 3.0.0beta2
> >
> >
> > Maybe others options were set the same as default one?
> >
> >
> > >I can verify this problem.  Here is my before and after size on the
> > smb.conf
> > >file:
> > >
> > >10459 Jul 14 10:42 smb.conf
> > >
> >  >1666 Jul 14 10:43 smb.conf
> >  >
> > >wayne
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I tried that.  It wrote out a partial smb.conf, omitting my
> > >> "wins server" parameter.
> > >>
> > >> I'll try it some more.
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > How do you get to the GLOBALS/Advanced list?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > The radio buttons don't seem to do anything, and
> > nothing I tried
> > >> > > refreshes the page with Advanced instead of Basic.
> > >> >
> > >> > Click on 'Avanced' then 'Commit'
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > - John T.
> > >> > --
> > >> > John H Terpstra
> > >> > Email: jht at samba.org
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> --
> >
> > Regard's
> >
> > --
> > Vincent
> >
> >
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>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org