[Samba] classic upgrade, splitting servers

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 24 07:42:02 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 09:11 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> Hai Stefan, 
> 
> A heads up and few adviced changes/tips for you. 
> 
> smb.conf: 
> realm = my.tld
> Change to 
> realm = MY.TLD
> 
> Try to set a REALM always in CAPS. Some programs rely on that. ( for example, MIT Kerberos expects realm in CAPS ) 
> So prepair for 4.7 now already to save problems in future. 
> 
Samba (which is the only thing that reads smb.conf) always upper cases
the realm internally prior to use.

(Just trying to avoid one more bit of samba folklore).

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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