On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 23:33 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > tor 2009-12-10 klockan 00:34 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries: > > > A few months ago we had this argument out and decided to keep them for > > the people who still don't want to or can't install Samba. > > Indeed. The SMB helpers are easier to get going as one does not need to > join the domain or anything, just being able to speak to the SMB port of > a server in the domain. > > But other than that the helpers are in quite crappy shape..
They are easier in that sense, but worse in the following: - they put more load on the domain - can't do NTLM reliably - very old, very crufty code I know we had the argument, but I'm not at all convinced that keeping them is the right answer. I think a better answer is to talk to samba to find out if winbindd can be used outside a domain, which is the only usecase these helpers are 'better' at, and if it can - or if it could be changed to do so, then do that, and get rid of the cruft as at that point it won't offer anything. -Rob
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