Re: What do you think ?

Jeremy Allison (jallison@whistle.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:41:35 -0700

Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:41:35 -0700
From:	Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
To:	Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr
Subject: Re: What do you think ?

Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> Basically I need to store infos about printers, like the dpi, color or not
> color, the default page size, etc
>
> So I have two choice, writing all of them in smb.conf (making between 15
> and 25 new entries) or making a small text file to hold all the infos
>
> Myself I would prefer storing those info in a real database like ldap or
> netinfo

Jean-Francois,

I would prefer you store them in a separate
file and include a pathname to that file as an smb.conf
parameter (as the printerdef stuff already does).

We already have too many smb.conf parameters :-).

Jeremy.

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