-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Schroeder wrote:
| The only problem with that is the old servers are | NOT our servers -- they are not managed by us. It's | hard for us to tell people 'hey, we updated something, | so now you have to'. Regardless of if it is a bug | with the old version of samba, I would imagine there | is some value in being backwards compatible with old | versions, regardless of being maintained. The crux of | the whole deal is that in the world of password | changing, the old smbpassword worked against everything, | now in order to get support for the new 2003 server | boxes that need samba 3 to connect to them, we lose | support for changing passwords on a large set of other | boxes. The obvious answer to this from an operational | stand point is to use the old binary / install base | for changing passwords on these boxes, but I was hoping | that there was some simple fix / work around that would | address the backwards compatibility issue I have ran | into. It seems somewhat strange that we would | strive for backwards compatibility for old servers using | protocols like CORE, COREPLUS, LANMAN1, LANMAN2 etc.. | but not support older samba releases IMHO. Wayne, First off, any breakage was not intentional. Second, I gave you instructions for helping us track it down. What I said about 2.2.x is that we will not issue a patch for it. I will be happy to issue a patch for smbpasswd to fix any incompatibilities with older Samba version if possible. But it requires that you do some things to help me out Here they are again: |> Another method would be to start trying smbpasswd |> from 3.0.x releases 3.0.14a and moving backwards to |> see when the incompatibility was introduced. We could |> then look at the svn logs to try to isolate the change |> and come up with a workaround. cheers, jerry ===================================================================== Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsJ3LIR7qMdg1EfYRAjh7AJ9L6SIE6zJa5oGF6hAJyEkc2oN4mACgwVTZ uzTz4x5jHNVN5dr51IQhGW0= =P9j6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba