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Wowa! Please understand that I was referring to the Linux implementationI see. So you were referring to my distro ( Gentoo ) when talking about brain-dead OSs. My apology.
being brain-dead - NOT MS Windows. I totally agree that Samba should
provide the ability to implement the same look and feel of MS Windows
servers.
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OK then. Thanks for taking note of my problem :)My question remains. Why would should we implement as part of the 'net rpc vampire' process an imposition on ALL UNIX/Linux platforms just because one platform wants to force you as the administrator to have only contiguous lower case names for users and groups?
I agree that the ability to call a script would possibly be nice. My experience is that most sites will use the opportunity to re-arrange the deck chairs during the migration process. I am not convinced that the ability to call a user/group name conversion script will mitigate the overehad in doing that, so as far as I can see the value of this nice feature is not at the "Must Have" level.
I did not state that this is Microsoft's fault. That is an invalid conclusion you drew. Sorry, but I am not guilty as charged on that one.
We must question what new features really are important and what is not. For the Samba-Team, it is important to know what features to spend time on. We have limited resources. We are always happy to receive patches and to integrate them into the code tree if they make sense.
At this time I am reluctant to ask one of our developers to take time away from other high priority work to add what in essence is a "It would be nice to have" feature. I totally agree that the features you describe would be really neat, but does it sense for the project as a whole?
Not all of us cut code, I have spent the last year writing documentation. My objective is to document Samba and it's deployment to help users like you. I accept responsiblity for how I choose to use my time.
Feedback we obtain does make its way into the documentation. We also use feedback to decide how best to improve Samba. We can not guarrantee to adopt every suggestion for code change.
Cheers,
John T.
I do realise that time is scarce, and now that I understand the cause of the problem ( my distro ) I agree that it's best to let individuals battle with it.
Sorry for being a typical whining user...
Dan
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