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

[David Timms]

Dane Mutters wrote:
> 	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?
Not overwrite, but backup! Probably better to not try to mess with it 
(think about a companies domain server with thousands of users - you 
wouldn't want this nuked!), and provide a button to display in gedit for 
the user to fix (assume s/he unfixed it).

Anyway, some earlier issues found / fixed wi sy-co-sa:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143291