[Samba] More on Group Policy Wiki page

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Oct 25 17:04:00 UTC 2021


On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 10:24 -0600, David Mulder wrote:
> 
> On 10/25/21 10:20 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > Hi David, before I okay your patch, can we clarify something. Are
> > you
> > saying that if samba-tool is used with just '-H' then the local
> > hostname will be used ? If so, this is news to me and the help
> > typically says this:
> > 
> >    -H URL, --URL=URL     LDB URL for database or target server
> > 
> > There is no mention of '-H' by itself meaning 'localhost' anywhere,
> > as
> > far as I can see.
> 
> No, the patch changes the behavior to use localhost if -H is *not* 
> specified, *and* the localhost is a DC. The old behavior when -H was
> not 
> specified was to just pick any server.

Thanks for clarifying that, I didn't think it could be so simple, but
had to ask :-)

Rowland





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