[Samba] Using separate packages for a DC

Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 11:31:25 UTC 2023


Op 01-02-2023 om 12:26 schreef Rowland Penny via samba:
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> 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.
>>
>> 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
>
Correct.
It is probably simpler to let the deb-package update process (script in 
the package) handle this.



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