[Samba] Questions for minimal AD DC, DNS setup and Posix use

Michael Wood esiotrot at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 04:25:26 MST 2013


On 1 February 2013 13:13, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 10:50 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 1 February 2013 04:18, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 07:45 +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> Andrew, I would like to avoid killing processes by not asking
>> >> for them to start. :)
>> >> Regards, Dewayne.
>> >
>> > Just start and stop 'samba' and ignore any other processes it may create
>> > as children, no matter what they may be named now and in the future.
>> > Currently those child processes are called 'samba' and 'smbd', but that
>> > may change.
>>
>> Well, adding "server services = -s3fs, -winbind" and commenting out
>> any share definitions seems to stop smbd from starting, but I have no
>> idea whether or not that will break anything.
>
> Michael,
>
> I know you are trying to address Dewayne's requirements, but please do
> not suggest untested combinations of server services.  I say this
> because users tend to try out these things without understanding them,
> and only come back later to get us to come back and diagnose the
> breakage.

Fair enough.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>


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