On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:51:13PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > This bug report suggests adding things liek the following to the
> > default smb.conf file:
> 
> > # Tho following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
> > # where to store user profiles?
> >    logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
> 
> > # The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
> > # where is a user's home directory (on the client)
> >    logon drive = H:
> >    logon home = \\%N\%U
> 
> > # The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
> > # what script to run during logon? The script must be stored
> > # in the [netlogon] share
> > # NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention
> >    logon script = logon.cmd
> 
> > IMHO, such parameters are very closely related to the default setup
> > and providing  them uncommented would force us to provide the relevant
> > direcotry/ies, script, etc. Moreover, this makes assumptions about the
> > setup wanted by the local admin.
> 
> > For these reasons, I do not really favor these changes, except all
> > commented. Adn, given that we already mentioned that the default
> > smb.conf file is not a substitute for the man page, I actually see no
> > point in cluttering the default file that much.
> 
> Well, I'm actually inclined to think that these are one of the more useful
> sets of parameters that we could be showing examples for.  The smb.conf
> manpage is long and twisty, and while it provides a comprehensive list of
> options, it doesn't provide any guidance on which options an admin might
> reasonably want to set.  Our default smb.conf *can* provide that guidance,
> and these are options that it's particularly useful for a DC admin to set
> even if we can't say that there's a default they should be set to.
> 
> So I think commented examples of "logon *" would be reasonable in the
> default smb.conf.

Yep, these are a good idea.

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net

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