#1387 closed defect (fixed)
Provide client-only SAMBA installation page
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Randy McMurchy | |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | VERIFIED |
| Cc: |
Description ¶
Currently the book has client-only installation pages for OpenSSH and rsync: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/openssh.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/rsync.html Why not make a similar page for SAMBA? Also a section "do I want to run SAMBA daemons?" won't hurt. E.g., some people on #lfs-support wrongly think that they need to run smbd if they want to print to shared printers connected to Windows machines.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
| Milestone: | future → 6.1 |
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| rep_platform: | Other → All |
| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | assigned → new |
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:4 by , 20 years ago
comment:5 by , 20 years ago
Sigh....
After updating this bug, I've reconsidered and do feel the client-only instructions probably belong where they are.
But Samba client-only instruction page really wouldn't fit. The section OpenSSH and Rsync client-only instructions are is titled "Basic Networking Programs". This would not be right for Samba client-only.
And, if this section is not right, which sections would be?
Even more reason to keep the existing Samba instructions the way they are with a section about not running the smbd daemon.
comment:6 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
After updating the Samba server instructions, which now clearly identify a client-only and a separate server configuration section (thanks to Alex's comments), it now makes sense to add a Samba-client only page in Chapter 18.
I created that page.
comment:7 by , 20 years ago
| Keywords: | VERIFIED added |
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The page is online, thus marking this bug as verified.
At this point, and after thinking about this carefully, I'm not sure the client-only installations pages are really necessary. To me, it is just fluff. The two sentences that are actually of any value in both the OpenSSH and Rsync client-only could easily be inserted into the server instructions.
This has a two-fold benefit:
that both of these "client-only" instructions will need to be updated when book re-org is done. Right now the book mis-identifies the chapter numbers pointing to the server instructions.
I do think that there should be instructions to not run the smbd daemon if it is not necessary, and will incorporate this into the server instructions.
I'll be posting a message to -dev about the possibility of centralizing server and client-only installations for the two packages mentioned in this bug.