Bug#336845: gnome-system-tools: shares-admin disables "wins support"

[Carsten Luedtke]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 1.4.0-4
Severity: normal

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Bug 1 for wins settings in shares-admin:

shares-admin doesn't read the right value for "wins server" from 
smb.conf (i have it in my smb.conf already). If I open the wins settings 
dialog in shares-admin wins support is disabled. But i have set a 
wins-server in smb.conf before.

Bug 2 for wins settings in shares-admin:

If i don't care for Bug 1 and set a wins server for 192.168.0.1 (as i 
have it already in my smb.conf) and press on OK and close shares-admin,
then shares-admin doesn't write it to smb.conf. Instead of writing the 
right value it writes "wins support = no". This is wrong.

OK lets compare, I have now this in my config:
[global]
wins server = 192.168.0.1
wins support = no

But Samba Docs tell
"wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" sets up a wins server for use, which is 
located somewhere in the network and not on the local host.

"wins support = no" disables wins emulation on the local host.
"wins support = yes" enables wins emulation on the local host.

So these are 2 different parameters, and "wins support" shouldn't be set 
if "wins server" is requested. If I disable "wins server" manually in my 
smb.conf and try to set it through shares-admin, then I get just "wins 
support = no" in my smb.conf . 

Bug 3 in wins settings in shares-admin:

This is a usability thing. "wins support" and "wins server" belong to 
[global] in smb.conf . It doesn't make sense to open a settings dialog 
for a share first to be able set a wins server or wins support. I would 
prefer to have a button for a global dialog on the main window, which 
would be more intuitive (if there is no share, nobody can set/check 
these wins options [if the wins part would work in shares-admin]).

Ok, that's it - thx for your time.
Carsten Luedtke


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.10.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-6        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.10.1-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.10.1-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]    0.2.36-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.2-1        LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.5.1-2      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.8.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.4.5-1        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.10.2-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.10.1-5       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11               1.0.16-14      GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.1-4          library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.10-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-10          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus-extension1    2.10.1-5       libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.4-1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.8.2-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.13-1       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.22-1       GNOME XML library
ii  perl                      5.8.7-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  system-tools-backends     1.4.0-1        System Tools to manage computer co
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-6      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gksu                          1.3.6-1    graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.10.2-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d

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