Re: name resolve order

Jeremy Allison (jallison@whistle.com)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:38:22 -0800

Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:38:22 -0800
From:	Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
To:	"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@NTS.Umn.EDU>
Subject: Re: name resolve order

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.

Jeremy.

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