[Samba] Pruning embedded samba 3.6 installation

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Apr 11 12:14:39 MDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 07:01:21AM -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] 
> > 
> > Start with only smbd and depending on your configuration the
> > VFS modules. Depending on whether you need NetBIOS, you
> > might also need nmbd. Please try to avoid security=share if
> > at all possible. If you have just a fixed password, you can
> > prepare a smbpasswd file externally, so that you can also
> > ditch the smbpasswd binary.
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> 
> What's wrong with security=share in this case?

We are *still* fixing bugs in it with interactions
with other authentication parameters such as 'force user'
etc. Plus it's gone in 4.0.0 and above.


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