Samba server configuration program chokes on highly-customized/missing smb.conf

Dane Mutters dmutters at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 04:49:27 UTC 2006


	I've been messing with the samba server settings on my FC5T3 box and I've 
found that if I have a highly-customized or missing smb.conf, the GUI Samba 
configuration tool will fail to open (for a highly-customized smb.conf) or 
crash upon adding a share (for a non-existant smb.conf).
	I think that a more reasonable behavior would be to have it prompt the user 
to overwrite, then if the user agrees, copy 
over /usr/share/system-config-samba/smb.conf.template to /etc/samba/smb.conf, 
and then act normally.
	Also, I've found that even a little customization is lost if I make any 
changes at all using the configuration tool.  Shouldn't the user be prompted 
before overwriting his/her hand-made changes?

	What do you all think?

	--Dane




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