Re: Samba configuration files directory

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, Andrew!
>
>
> > I implement possibility to describe where Samba configuration file is in the
> > system.  This can be configured by configure, but somewhere smb.conf is 
> > placed in the /etc, somewhere in the /etc/samba and so on.  This feature
> > can be useful for system administrators.  I need your help to describe
> > this change in the doc/mc.1.in.  My English is not perfect ;-)
>
>
> Neither is mine, but your description seems fine to me.
>
> The bad thing is that it pushes the mc.ini vs. mc.lib madness even
> further.  mc.lib is supposed to be a system wide configuration, while
> mc.ini should only have the settings saved by the user.  That's what the 
> manual used to say before I discovered that only terminal settings are 
> actually read from mc.lib.
>
> Some settings are more likely to be system-wide than others, and it's
> understandable that your code only reads mc.lib.  However, I would prefer
> to have a uniform policy regarding the settings.
>
> By the way, what is mc reading from smb.conf?  Is it the workgroup name?  

Workgroup/domain name is really read from here, but it is not used...

> Anything else?  I think that mc should work just fine without smb.conf.

In my case it is at least "character set", "client code page" and maybe
"code page directory" and "netbios name/scope".  It is fine to have this 
parameters in one place like system wide smb.conf and configure only one 
file for all aplications.