JF Martinez wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their
> > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings
> > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it.
> >
> > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask
> > parm in the smb.conf and that also means that it has problems if the
> > DHCP server assigns me a new adddres
> >
> > So for next version it would be real nice if pump was able to handle
> > Samba files (possibly through include files) or at the very least
> > allowed retrieval of the info about interfaces and WINS servers in
> > order for an external program being able to edit the smb.conf.
> >
>
> This is a message for all those people who replied that setting
> interfaces was not necessary. In fact it is neccessary when you use a
> Wins server: it seems Samba needs to send its IP address in order to
> register with the wins server and that for some reason it will not send
> the correct address if you don't set the interfaces parameter in the
> smb.conf so Wins will not register it.
>
> So a wish for next version is that Pump writes the parms it gets (both
> the Wins server address and the interfaces set) so a trivial scvript
> can set the parms in the smb.conf
>
Isn't this something that should get fixed in Samba, rather than pump?
-hpa
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