Two diffs to add paramater self-checking
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Mon Jul 15 11:53:56 GMT 2002
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jay Ts wrote:
> David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > >
> > > No - when security = domain, it will try to find a DC if password server
> > > is not set.
> >
> > Thanks, I didn't know that it could do that!
>
> Neither did I, considering that the smb.conf(5) manual page says:
>
> If the security parameter is set to domain, then
> the list of machines in this option must be a list
> of Primary or Backup Domain controllers for the
> Domain or the character '*'
>
> and
>
> Default: password server = <empty string>
>
> If the actual behavior is different from that, then I would
> like to request that the smb.conf manual page be updated.
Jay, Feel free to send me a diff. Andrew is correct.
The default value is '*' for practical purposes.
cheers, jerry
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