>Why is the GUID a secret? Can't it be a configuration file option? Really, >it should be retrieved from the directory, but I appreciate that this is >difficult with the existing SAMBA architecture. It's not a secret. Just a matter of programming convenience at the prototype stage...it wasn't meant as the final solution. It do think it should be retrieved from the directory, at join time (or genearted locally and stored in the directory at join time). I do believe it should kept locally somehow to samba, because a server should be able to reply to a negprot with its own GUID, and not have to go to the directory to retrieve it then. Not a big deal for a DC, but every member server should be sending back its GUID if the extended security bit is on in the negprot request, and it shouldn't have to go to the directory server.
---------------------------- Jim McDonough IBM Linux Technology Center Samba Team 6 Minuteman Drive Scarborough, ME 04074 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (207) 885-5565 IBM tie-line: 776-9984
