Re: Samba on SS4
Dan Homolka <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.sparc |
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| Organization | SuSE Linux UK Limited |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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? :-) -- Dr Dan Homolka SuSE Linux UK. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8846 3918 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.suse.co.uk/