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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
