[Pkg-samba-maint] samba-tools contents

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 06:58 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer at debian.org):
> > Hi,
> > 
> > samba-tools seems to contain a few internal Samba unit tests, which I
> > think should not be relevant to any users. These binaries are:
> Not even for you?
> 
> Indeed, samba-tools was created on Jon Terpstra's request and I did
> put there all crap^W tools I found around, with the rationale that,
> while we're at providing a package, let's have it provide everything... ;)
No, they're really just unit tests. 

The other tools in the package can be useful and can be divided into two
categories:

Protocol testers - smbtorture/locktest/masktest are useful for testing
remote SMB servers. Generally you would want the Samba 4 equivalents for
this though, the Samba 3 ones basically haven't been updated since Samba
4 was started). 

Plugin tests - nsstests/vfstest/pdbtest can be useful for people test
plugins for Samba.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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