On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:50:27AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > > I still think we _need_ to introduce a "server role" paramter, leaving > > the other active for tuning, but so that new admins will not get mad to > > have a decent configuration. > > > > server role = share|server|member|PDC|BDC|ADS > > > > or something like that. > > And i'm still not convinced that it adds any value. I just adds one more > way to configure things (functionality we can already do) and confuses > people reading older, but still valid, documentation.
It adds value in that Samba is easier to configure. The smb.conf file is our "user interface" and it quite frankly is a big mess. Anything that simplifies the configuration adds value. Tim (who promised himself not to get involved in this argument again but couldn't resist (-:)
