The template is actually VERY out of date. With the next release, I'll provide a template that, in addition to be up-to-date, without unknown parameters, will reflect the way I personally use Samba, i.e. in a "security=DOMAIN" way, and with an external (Microsoft) WINS server.
I must admit that I never tried to use Samba with the "wins support = Yes" option, and I somehow doubt that it would work smoothly. That's why I never encountered the "dns proxy = Yes" issue, because this parameter is active only when NMBD works as a WINS server itself. The problem is (and I apologize for it) that my main concern is to have a satisfactory Samba Server in my own environment, and my boss would not be happy if I spent most of my time testing and eventually fixing Samba features that we don't even dream of using here (and, as far as I know, are not used anywhere). When users from the Samba/VMS community encounter problems, I do my best to help them, and fix the bugs they encounter. Because nobody ever complained about the WINS server feature not working correctly, even if I suspect it would not, I infer that nobody uses it, so I forget about it for the moment. I have definitely no time enough to try everything that can be done with Samba. John E. Malmberg said : > It turns out that the hack in past releases NMBD to change the fork() > call to return a constant of 0, it appears that might cause NMBD to > appear to hang. That is very possible and most probably true, if you say so. However, I have not experienced it, no user I am aware of experienced it either, and I don't know what I should do to reproduce that issue. I would need more information here. JYC -----Message d'origine----- De : John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 13 août 2004 01:38 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : smb.conf issues for 2.2.8 The template smb.conf is out of date for 2.2.8 and is listing several parameters that are no longer used. This is causing visible diagnostics like: WARNING: The "status"option is deprecated Unknown parameter encountered: "read prediction" Ignoring unknown parameter "read prediction" And unless this release has found a way to implement a fork() function, or has converted NMBD to threads, the parameter "dns proxy" should be set to "no". And related to that: It turns out that the hack in past releases NMBD to change the fork() call to return a constant of 0, it appears that might cause NMBD to appear to hang. To provide the functionality that SAMBA expects, either NMBD must be converted to threading, or be launched by the TCPIP dispatcher like SMBD is. It looks like converting to be launched by the TCPIP dispatcher is simpler. -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
