[Pkg-samba-maint] [PATCH] Remove volume and detritus from the example smb.conf

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 07:05 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> > This patch removes some things that I don't think need to be in a
> > default smb.conf file.
> 
> Which patch? :-)

This one! ;-)

> > 
> > Our users find that the length of the example smb.conf file makes Samba
> > seem more difficult to set up than it is.
> 
> 
> IIRC, we trimmed the smb.conf quite significantly over the years, but
> I agree it should be kept as short as possible.
> 
> Ideally, indeed, it could even be better if we could have.....an empty
> smb.conf file (therefore only using upstream defaults). But I seem to
> remember that samba fails to start when there is no (or an empty)
> smb.conf. IIRC, I filed a bug about this in Bugzilla.

No smb.conf will cause a failure, but empty should be fine, certainly
you don't need very much at all.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org

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