default value for "winbind separator"

[David Mulder]

On 2/7/24 12:13 PM, Stefan Kania via samba-technical wrote:
> Hello,
>
> up this point I never ever used or noticed the default setting of the 
> "winbind separator" I only know that it was "+" in the early days of 
> Samba. Now that I tried to get GPOs (for smb_conf) running on a DC the 
> following was happend:
>
> I created the GPO, linked the gpo and then did a "samba-gpupdate 
> --force" that changes my smb.conf in that way, that all possible 
> options were written into my smb.conf. Including "winbind separator = \"
I'll point out the fact that all possible options were written to the 
smb.conf is a bug in the *s3* loadparm. The smb.conf group policy 
extension is just calling `lp.dump(show_defaults=False, filename)`, 
which should not dump every option.

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