[Samba] Using separate packages for a DC

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Feb 1 11:26:02 UTC 2023



On 01/02/2023 11:21, miguel medalha via samba wrote:
>> It certainly would be nice to have distinct 'smb.conf' and 'samba.conf' files.
>> Each one would have its own manual page containing only the parameters that apply to each case, AD DC and regular file server.
>> The current situation, mixing parameters that apply and don't apply to a DC is somewhat confusing to many users.
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> A transition period could be implemented, during which the 'samba' daemon would read its configuration from both 'samba.conf' and 'smb.con', in this order of preference, until at a certain point the use of 'smb.conf' by the AD DC would be discontinued.
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I cannot ever see this gaining traction, for one, how long would the 
transition period be ? To give some context to this, Samba has some 
deprecations going back years.

Rowland



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