Samba

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:46 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:36 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:15, Craig White wrote:
> > > for the record, defaults are what you get when you don't specify
> > > anything...
> > >
> > > from smb.conf
> > > Default: workgroup = WORKGROUP
> > 
> > and as in windows, it is always better to not use the default.
> ----
> It doesn't matter if you use or don't use the defaults unless you
> haven't a clue what the defaults are. The easy way to figure out what
> the true settings are (explicit and default supplied) is to issue
> 'testparm -s -v > /tmp/samba.conf' and you can then see all of the
> settings, including those supplied by default
> ----
I should have made clear that when you inspect the output of this and
compare it to your smb.conf and get an appreciation for how many
defaults you are actually using in samba - you would probably have to
use this file as your smb.conf and start editing from there if you
really didn't want to use the defaults (i.e. eat your own
dogfood...better not to use defaults)

Craig