On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) <bkea...@keadle.net> wrote:
> What is the actual process/command that happens when I click on the Override
> button of a hosts config file - specifically the SmbShareName?

Basically it means that the value set will be saved in the per-pc
config instead of being inherited from the global config.

> I have a "Self Provisioning" solution whereby a user can authenticate to a
> BackupPC web page, and their computer will automatically provision itself
> for backup.  However, I have  a mix of Windows 7 and Windows XP machines.
> As part of the self provisioning process the hosts would be defaulted to the
> global share name of C$ (uppercase) which contains Windows 7-specific
> BackupExcludeFiles specs.  However, I can determine host OS version at the
> time of the provisioning, so if the workstation is XP I'd want to override
> the SmbShareName to be c$ (lowercase) which would contain Windows
> XP-specific BackupExcludeFiles.

Excluding things that don't exist won't hurt anything.  And some small
number of errors in the log files isn't really fatal either.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikes...@gmail.com

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