Re: [suse-sparc] Samba on SS4

From: Dan Homolka (Dan.Homolka_at_suse.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 12:32:00 CET

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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:32:00 +0000
From: Dan Homolka <Dan.Homolka@suse.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Samba on SS4

    daniel carter wrote:
    > On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:06, Dan Homolka wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Although be aware that SWAT rewrites the smb.conf file from scratch when
    >>you change a setting and do a "commit", so you will loose anything you
    >>add to the configuration file by hand.
    >
    >
    > If you edit the smb.conf file with a text editor, and then make more changes through SWAT, you wont loose any settings. The only thing you'll loose is comments you added to the file.
    >
    > When you use SWAT it reads in the all the settings from the config file regardless of how those settings got added to the config file. Then when you commit, it saves all the existing settings + your changes.
    >

    My apologies. You are indeed correct. And the man pages says as much
    too... although it also says:

    "It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments, include= and
    copy=" options. If you have a carefully crafted smb.conf then back it
    up or don't use swat!"

    I never trust those new fangled GUIs... I prefer old-fangled
    configuration file editor user interface = vi ;-)

    Dan.

    PS What does "fangled" mean anyway? :-) 

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