[Samba] does anyone use the enumports command for anything useful ?

Beast beast at i6x.org
Fri Jul 1 04:24:23 GMT 2005


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> I'm just wondering if we should remove this enum ports command
> altogether.  Ports are a consemtic concept in Samba for the
> most port since the printer is really tied to the queue name.
> But before I think about this anymore is there anyone actually
> using enumports for something other than
> 
> 	#!/bi/sh
> 
> 	echo "LPT1:"
> 	echo "LPT2:"
> 	echo "LPT3:"

No, never use it.
Also, is there any reason why not drop some paramater in smb.conf which 
has a synonym? I found arround 15 synonyms.

Next is to reduce the number of parameter, it still scared me :-)





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