Re: name resolve order

Christopher R. Hertel (crh@NTS.Umn.EDU)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:06:21 -0600 (CST)

From:	"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@NTS.Umn.EDU>
Message-Id: <199803162206.QAA23592@unet.unet.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: name resolve order
To:	jallison@whistle.com
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:06:21 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <350D9BCE.33590565@whistle.com> from "Jeremy Allison" at Mar 17, 98 08:54:29 am

>
> Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> >
> > Groan.
> >
> > Um... I do think that I've mentioned this sort of thing a few times. I
> > wanted to go a bit further, though, and add in alternate means for
> > resolving names. I've done a bit of work on the idea. I'll take a look
> > at what you've done and see how I can adapt.
> >
>
> Well the point of doing it the way I did was the
> principle of 'least suprises' - ie. if someone
> upgrades their Samba server to the new code
> and doesn't read any of the docs then the new
> code behaves exactly as the old code does - no
> smb.conf changes needed.
>

I didn't say I wanted to surprise anyone. Actually, *I* was the one who
was surprised.

I haven't looked at what you've done yet. Perhaps it will make my job
easier. It's just that I'd said a few times that I wanted to work on this
(in the ;login: article, too), so I was surprised that you'd done it
without letting me know. I probably wasn't vocal enough, I s'pose.

Chris -)-----

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